Xichun, the first daughter of the Red Chamber

At the end of April, the weather has not yet fallen, but the sky is already hot. The sun is hot in the sky, and the body is covered with sweat after walking a few steps. Even the wind blowing from the sea is hot.

Mrs. Xu put the cooked rice into a bamboo basket and filled another bamboo tube with water. Then she locked the door, put on her bamboo hat and walked to the beach.

Along the way, people smiled and greeted her, but some people saw her spit on the ground.

"How shameless! How dare you go out!"

"Exactly! If I were her, I would just jump into the sea and die!"

"They said they were rescued, but I don't know how they survived the pirates!"

"Tsk, how long has it been? Dressing up like this to seduce a man is simply outrageous!"

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Xu didn't look sideways, and walked forward as if he didn't hear anything. When he saw some hooligans in the distance, he walked around and walked for half an hour before reaching the beach.

Mrs. Xu stood on the reef and looked towards the sea. It didn't take long before she saw a small boat approaching slowly. When the boat got close, she found a man on board who was paddling with shirtless arms.

Xu's expression became a little more relaxed, and he lifted his feet and walked to the beach, helped the man park the boat, opened the bamboo basket, and put out all the food inside.

The man frowned, "I told you, I don't need you to bring the food."

Xu did not speak, and directly stuffed the chopsticks into the man's hand. The man was startled, and subconsciously shook off Xu's hand, and the chopsticks fell into the sand.

The air suddenly became quiet.

The man was silent for a moment, "Sorry."

Mrs. Xu shook her head, picked up the chopsticks and rinsed them with water from the bamboo tube, then took out a handkerchief to wipe the chopsticks clean and handed them to the man, "Eat."

The voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if it came from the cracks in the stone.

The man hesitated, but still took the chopsticks and started eating.

After eating, the man said: "I just saved you at the beginning, I didn't think about how you would repay me, you don't have to do this, besides, the food you gave me for so long is enough, before...before I said that too, we..."

Xu interrupted the man, "You think I'm dirty? Do you think I've been humiliated in that pirate's lair like them?"

The man waved his hand, "No, no, I rescued you back then, so I knew it, it's just...it's just that I'm not good enough for you..."

The corner of Xu's mouth twitched, and he pulled the clothes around his neck, revealing a hideous scar, "Do you think you're not good enough for me or do you think I'm not good enough for you?"

The man sighed, "I really didn't mean that."

Xu said: "Then why don't you agree? Are you afraid of those people's advice?"

The man didn't speak.

Xu was silent for a while and nodded, "I see."

Mrs. Xu packed up the dishes, and walked back with the bamboo basket on her shoulders. The man handed her two fish, "It's the money for today's meal."

Xu directly pushed the man's hand away, without looking back, said: "Rongda! You are a coward through and through! Coward!"

Listening to the crying in Xu's voice, Rong Da paused.

Xu walked back with red eyes, and more people pointed at her along the way, and some local hooligans came up to make fun of her. Xu threw a basket at her, "You want to bully me! Come on! The worst is to die together! One life Change your life! I am enough! I am not afraid of death now! Come on! Come on!"

Seeing Xu's crazy appearance, those people stopped talking, but hid aside and looked at her with strange eyes.

Xu returned home in a daze, and then lay down on the bed and burst into tears.

Xu was originally the daughter of a local scholar, and she was praised by the neighbors when she was a child. Later, she married someone and was known as a good daughter-in-law around her. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, and her husband passed away not long after.

Xu's mother-in-law is a good one, but her father-in-law is a jerk. He likes to gamble on weekdays. After Xu's mother-in-law passed away, he lost his rules and stayed in the casino all day. The family's farm savings were quickly lost. He actually wanted to sell the Xu family for money.

Mrs. Xu refused, and only said that she wanted to go back to her mother's house, but was tied up by her father-in-law and prepared to sell. Mrs. Xu was also ruthless. She first made a fuss, then pretended to accept her fate, and ran away when Ren Yazi relaxed a little bit towards her. , She did not run to the government, but went to the nearest military camp, saying that she was the wife of a fellow villager, and when the fellow villager came out, she knelt down in front of a large group of people and called for help.

The fellow countryman was taken aback, and quickly reported the matter to the higher authorities. She was also educated, and when someone asked her from the upper levels, she asked for help by referring to her father-in-law's trafficking in human beings.

There was no way in the barracks, so they asked her fellow countrymen to accompany her to the government to report the case. On the way, Mrs. Xu made another promise to her fellow countrymen, asking her fellow countrymen to help save face, and then announced the public announcement!

The county magistrate wanted to turn the big thing into a small one, but Mrs. Xu downplayed the matter of her father-in-law's buying and selling herself, and magnified the matter of the casino and the matter of her father-in-law forcing her mother-in-law and son to death.

In fact, Xu's husband and mother-in-law both died of illness, but Xu's words made her father-in-law frighten her sick mother-in-law and son, and didn't give them enough money to see the doctor prescribe medicine.

In the end, Xu's father-in-law was sentenced to exile, and Xu's was also released with [-] boards.

When Mrs. Xu returned to her natal family, her father kicked her out of the house and threatened to sever ties with her. Mrs. Xu had no choice but to return to her husband's home where there was no one else.

Because of Xu's lawsuit against her father-in-law, the neighbors in the surrounding streets no longer treated her as before, but disgusted her in every possible way. Some stood at her door and yelled at her, and some elderly people went to the village chief. Saying that she was going to be kicked out did not spoil the local folk customs.

Mrs. Xu endured everything, thinking that she would get better after a while. First, she went to do embroidery work in exchange for money, but those shops didn't accept her things. Later, she went to help people wash and cook, but she was kicked out. Only then did Shi realize that there are rules for visiting the pier for these things. Xu Shi had no choice but to repair the broken boat at home and prepare to go to sea.

I went out to sea a few times, but I didn't catch any fish, and I was kidnapped by passing pirates instead.

When Xu was taken to the pirate's lair, all thoughts were lost, she only wanted to go innocently, kicked a pirate when he was lying on top of her and tried to do something wrong, and then stabbed the pirate in the chest with the hairpin on her head. Then he flipped out of the window and ran outside.

The pirates quickly caught up, yelling and cursing, Xu panicked and ran to a cliff in the end.

Seeing the pirates chasing after her, Xu cried and laughed loudly, venting all the emotions in her heart, and finally when the pirates were about to approach her, she slashed her throat with a hairpin and jumped down the cliff.

When she fell into the sea, Xu's mind was already thinking of nothing, and when she was picked up, she still couldn't react for a long time.

It was Rong Da who rescued her from the sea. Later, Xu found out that Rong Da was injured on the battlefield and retreated. He made a living by fishing and occasionally watched out for pirates in the barracks. For a while, he happened to be staring at the group of pirates, so he happened to save her.

Xu was also in a daze when she was rescued, and only heard a hoarse man next to her ear telling her not to sleep and to survive.

The tone was mournful, almost begging.

At that moment, Xu found the meaning that supported her to live.

Xu was tired of crying, and had enough of crying. She slowly got up from the bed, pulled out a roll of hemp rope from under the bed, and threw it over the beam. After the knot was tied, she began to hesitate again. Open, there was a sudden movement outside the house, Xu subconsciously silenced, and carefully hid at the door.

Outside were two old hooligans from the neighborhood. They knocked on her door frequently on weekdays. Mrs. Xu tolerated it as much as she could, pretending not to hear it, but today she couldn't bear it anymore. Mrs. Xu opened the door and went into the kitchen He touched the knife and went to the gate.

Before Mrs. Xu opened the door, the two old hooligans screamed from outside. After a while, someone knocked on the door lightly, "I know you are inside, open the door, it's me."

It is large.

Xu lost all strength in an instant, the knife fell to the ground with a ding, and he sat on the ground paralyzed.

When Rong Da heard the commotion, he was also a little anxious, and shouted a few more times, but Xu Shi didn't answer, so he complained for offending, and then climbed over the wall and came in.

Xu stared blankly at Rong Da falling from the sky, appearing in front of her like a god.

Rong Da glanced at the knife on the ground, then at Xu Shi, frowned immediately, picked Xu Shi up and went into the house.

Rong Da put Mrs. Xu on the bed, saw the rope on the beam again, and frowned even more.

Seeing Rongda frowned, Xu hurriedly said: "I didn't want to do something stupid, I was about to solve it, really." After speaking, Xu looked at Rongda cautiously.

When she was first rescued, she also thought about killing herself, but in the end she was dismissed by Rong Da's words.

"You are a person who died once, why should you be affected by the previous life?"

"Live it."

Rong Da sat by the bed, hesitated for a while and said: "Actually, you are right, I am a coward, a coward."

"My hometown is not here. Before I joined the army, my biological mother had passed away long ago. My stepmother didn't dare to discipline me. My grandfather went to the mountains to find immortals and asked. My father only knew how to spend money and drink, and never cared about me. I was brought up by my grandmother. Yes, later my grandmother lost energy and didn't care about me anymore, so I grew up heartlessly."

"Later I got married." Rong Da slid his throat and said slowly: "I really wanted to treat her well and spend the rest of my life with her. Her status was a bit bad, so she was in a very difficult situation at that time. , Of course, it's not that my family treats her badly, in fact, the family has treated her as well as possible."

"At that time, she regarded me as the only salvation and put all her hopes on me. I promised her that I would take her away and give her a bright future, but in the end I disappointed her time and time again, and finally died with hatred. "

"...Her death, I have to bear half of the responsibility, because I gave her hope, but in the end I didn't achieve anything. I don't know if she has blamed me. For me, she is willing to be alone for many things People bear it alone and don’t want to say it.”

"And because of her, I did a lot of wrong things, which completely chilled the hearts of my family. After she died, I felt ashamed to stay there any longer, so I insisted on joining the army."

"My family also persuaded me to take good care of my health before joining the army, but I insisted on doing so."

"...I didn't realize how ridiculous my behavior was until I stood on the battlefield."

"In the end I survived, but it was in exchange for the lives of others. I flinched again. I didn't dare to go back and face it, so I ran away again."

Rong Da twitched the corners of his mouth, "At the beginning when I looked at you, it was as if I saw her, but you are different from her after all, you are stronger and braver than her, so the sentence that I am not worthy of you is not true. I said it casually."

Rong Da stretched out his hand towards Mrs. Xu, "...Then, now I have to go home and take on my responsibilities. For a person like me who loves to retreat and has no courage, are you still willing to stay with me?"

Xu didn't hold Rong Da's hand, but threw himself into Rong Da's arms and wept loudly.

Rong Da was stunned, and slowly hugged Xu Shi.