Chapter 4 The hardships at the bottom
Although life is a bit harder, there is nothing more important for Lu Bu than this.
He lost his father shortly after he was born in his previous life. His mother passed away at the age of thirteen. Losing his parents too early also made Lu Bu very eager for this kind of parental affection. In this life, he could have both parents, even if life was not easy, which made Lu Bu very happy.
A group of children of the same age in the village were vaguely rejecting him because their parents always compared Lu Bu. After a long time, their dissatisfaction with their parents naturally fell on Lu Bu.
But would Lu Bu care about the rejection and isolation of a group of little brats? This is obviously impossible. Lu Bu is a little funny about these little carrot-headed behaviors.
My father rarely speaks in this life. He only works and sleeps every day. Only when he eats, the family will get together rarely. Lu Bu even doesn't feel his father's presence. Only occasionally when he eats some good food at home, looking at the inexplicable meat in his bowl, Lu Bu will feel an inexplicable sourness in his heart. It is obviously not a strange thing. For him, eating meat in his previous life was not lacking even when he was a child, but just such an inconspicuous piece of meat made Lu Bu want to cry.
Another year passed, and when he was four years old, his mother was pregnant again. Lu Bu, who had never had a brother or sister before, felt very novel. What would it be like to have a brother or sister connected by blood?
When he was pregnant for ten months, Lu Bu was already five years old. Amid the mother's painful moans, the Lu family had a new life, a daughter. Lu Bu thought it was pretty good. Looking at his sister's wrinkled appearance reminded him of his daughter Lu Lingqi in his previous life. He didn't know how they were doing after he left. It had been five years since they left. I thought I had forgotten it, but when I think about it, I still felt an inexplicable pain in my heart. In that world, if there is no man's family, orphans and widows may not be able to live a good life.
"Young son, I'll sell it." Little Lu Bu, who was excited about having a younger sister at home, couldn't sleep that night. When he wanted to see his sister, he heard the conversation between his father and his mother, and suddenly he froze in place as if struck by lightning.
My youngest one is naturally his sister.
"The head of the family, is there no other way? This is your flesh and blood after all~" My mother's voice was filled with sobs and reluctance.
"There is no way. It's hard to support Abu in our family. Besides, this girl is always raised by others, so it's not worth it." The father shook his head and refused to look at the baby daughter.
This was the first time Lu Bu felt the helplessness of a poor family, but he wanted him to see his own sister being sent to someone, but Lu Bu couldn't do it. Seeing that his father was holding his sister and leaving, he quickly snatched it out and stopped him in front of his father: "Dad, you can't give it away, I can eat less."
"No, if you eat less and get hungry, our house will be out of stock." The father looked at his son and refused flatly.
"Then I go and work, I can work too." Lu Bu stopped his father tightly, but in this life he was not Lu Bu, a famous general in the border area in his previous life. He was just an ordinary child and could not compete with adults at all.
"You can't do it!"
"Yes!" Lu Bu stared at his father tightly, his eyes gradually turned red: "Dad, the child must be able to do it, don't take the youngest sister away."
Looking down at his son's gaze, Lu's father felt that he was not facing a child. His blood-lit eyes were like a beast that wanted to choose people and devoured. Just looking at it made people feel intimidated.
Finally, Lu's father sat down in a daze, and Lu Bu took the opportunity to carry the cradle out of his father's arms and comforted his sister who was awakened and cried.
Since that day, Lu Bu did what he said, and went out to do farm work with his father every day. Lu's father wanted his son to give up and recognize the reality, but Lu Bu did not mean to give up and see the difficulties. Naturally, he did not understand farm work, but he carried manure and fertilized and weeded every day for a whole year, but he didn't make him tired after half of the time. At first, he was still busy, but by the second year, he could indeed share a lot of pressure with his father.
There are two acres of thin land at home. In addition, you have to be a tenant farmer for the family. You can get some. After paying taxes for two acres of thin land, you really can't raise four people. If you work as a tenant farmer for the family, you can get two more stones of grain throughout the year. However, these two stones of grain, plus my mother raising some chickens at home, can really make their family of four live.
When Lu Bu was eight years old, Lu's father had completely handed over the two acres of thin land in his family to Lu Bu for management. He focused on helping him as a tenant farmer and could get more. Many people in the village envied Lu's father for having a sensible and capable son.
In the past two years, Lu Bu has also learned a lot of things through farming, such as being able to roughly predict the weather, and for example, he can judge the best amount of fertilizer to apply through the soil. He has two acres of thin fields at home and the effect of planting fertile fields.
But even so, the grain grown from two acres of thin fields and the grain from his father as a tenant farmer as Lu Bu and his youngest sister grew up, and they began to make ends meet. Lu Bu deeply realized how difficult it is to be an ordinary farmer in his life. Every day, they have already put all their energy into their family. It is so difficult to go further...
"Dad, isn't the family paying taxes?" Winter is the most leisurely day of the year. Lu Bu, who is already ten years old, will go to the mountains to hunt and subsidize his family every day. Although his physical fitness is far less than his previous life, this archery technique depends on his eyesight and experience. In addition to shooting range, Lu Bu's talent in archery was preserved. The father and son sat at the door. Lu Bu asked frownly, he didn't understand why he did nothing at home and could have food and clothing if he worked. The family was as tired as a dog every day, so that he could barely fill his stomach.
"There are fertile land in the family, but the tax paid is the same as ours." Lu's father sat on the threshold and sighed.
Chapter completed!