Chapter 15
Old Man Lu and the villagers of Dawan Village sat together and each talked about the difficulties on their way out of the desert.
It turns out that the entire village of Dawan Village fled together.
However, when they met robbers on the way, the Lu family and the villagers in the village were separated. After that, the Lu family walked alone on the way to escape.
I didn't expect to meet him here again.
Old Man Lu and Mrs. Su both felt that the next road would be easier.
After all, if people from a village gather together and meet a robber, they always have a better chance of winning.
However, the old couple were obviously optimistic too early.
After a brief reminiscing about old times, someone stared at the Lu family's cattle drive with sour eyes: "It's different with the cattle cart. When the sun is bright, you can rest and walk, and wait until the sun gets thin before walking. It's faster than two of us."
The legs should walk faster."
The speaker was Gao Shumei, the daughter-in-law of the paralyzed man on Tuesday. Because the man was paralyzed and had three children to raise, he usually liked to take advantage of everything.
For the sake of the Zhou family's difficulties, everyone turned a blind eye and didn't care about her too much, but they just didn't like her in their hearts.
After listening to her words, many people began to secretly look at the Lu family.
The rest of the Lu family were not much different from them. They were all dressed in rags and looked haggard. But the little daughter-in-law of the Lu family didn't look like she was fleeing a famine.
The daughters-in-law of other families were so hungry that their faces were sallow and thin, but the little daughter-in-law of the Lu family had a white and tender face, a rosy complexion, and black hair. It was obvious from a glance that even if she was fleeing famine, her family would not be willing to let her suffer any hardship.
But looking at the Lu family's eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law, both of whom were so hungry that they looked sallow and thin, I guess it wasn't the Lu family's elder couple who favored her, but it was probably the Lu family's third son who loved his wife.
Everyone in the village knew that Lu Shiyan was capable. He often went into the mountains to hunt alone. It was only because of his hunting skills that he was able to marry such a charming little wife.
Fang Peiru had the same idea as most of the villagers. She felt that Lu Shiyan had taken good care of Jiang Tangtang all the way through the famine years.
She had always admired Lu Shiyan, but no matter how handsome her cousin was, he was just a farmer who knew how to hunt, and was not as promising as the village chief's brother Ajun who knew how to study.
Both of them had their own merits, which made her undecided for a moment.
Unexpectedly, after she hesitated for a few days, her cousin got angry and took the female demon back.
Now that they have not seen each other for some time, her cousin becomes more and more handsome. However, the scholar Ajun she was hesitant to marry at that time died of illness on the road because he was too weak to bear the hardship of escaping.
After thinking about it, my third cousin is better.
She wanted to go up and greet her third cousin, but when she lowered her head and saw her rotten straw sandals with even her toes exposed, and her dirty clothes, she gritted her teeth and refrained from going forward.
If I go to my cousin like this now, wouldn't I be compared to Jiang?
She had to sort things out before trying to win back her cousin's heart.
Fang Peiru bit her fingers and thought about how to make herself more decent.
On the other side, Gao Shumei had become accustomed to taking advantage. When she saw the Lu family's ox cart, she subconsciously wanted to take advantage.
She walked up to Jiang Tangtang in a few steps and said: "Sanlang's wife, look at your little face, which is as white as soft tofu. Your men often hunt prey to replenish your body, right?"
She began to wipe her tears and pretend to be pitiful, "I'm sorry for the children in my aunt's family. My father was paralyzed. He was afraid that it would hinder our escape, so he strangled himself to death on the bed with a trouser belt. You and I are a woman with several children.
It's really difficult to escape, so just help Auntie!"
She pushed the three children, who were as dirty as black briquettes, in front of Jiang Tangtang, trying to arouse Jiang Tangtang's sympathy.
This time, Jiang Tangtang didn't need to say anything, Luo Taohua jumped up, like a rooster ready for war, "Aunt Zhou, whose family doesn't have difficulties? Our children are so hungry that they are skin and bones. Where can we find time?"
Take care of your children. Besides, my third brother is injured. You don’t have eyes, right? What kind of prey can he hunt? "
Gao Shumei took a step back because of Luo Taohua's saliva, and said displeasedly: "I didn't tell you, why are you so excited? I asked Sanlang's wife."
"That's what I mean too." Jiang Tangtang pulled Lu Chenyan over and said, "My little kid still doesn't have enough to eat, how can you have the energy to help you? I also want my aunt to help me."
Looking at the child in front of her who was as thin as a bean sprout, Gao Shumei was speechless.
Why do Lu Sanlang and his wife both look like they have enough food for their family, but their only son is so hungry?
How did she know that this was all a literary and artistic effect created by a dog author for the sake of plot, regardless of whether it was consistent with reality or not.
Because Jiang Tangtang is positioned by the author as a coquettish bitch villain, she must have a perfect face and body in order to seduce the magistrate's son. Therefore, the author gives her various essential characteristics of a beauty such as being able to tan without tanning and having naturally supple skin.
As for Lu Shiyan, as the male protagonist, it is certainly different when he has the halo of being a male protagonist.
As for Lu Chenyan, the cannon fodder who died at the beginning, the author would not waste any time on him.
To have a flawless appearance is to highlight the male protagonist’s excellent genes.
Seeing Gao Shumei looking at Lu Chenyan in confusion, but not giving up and standing still, Jiang Tangtang said again: "Auntie, I see your water bag is bulging, I guess it contains a lot of water! My husband has been boiling for a long time.
We don’t have any water for medicine, so give us your water for emergency treatment!”
"Where can I get water? There is just a little mud in here. My children can't drink enough. I will give you more. If you are short of water, go to your sister-in-law." Gao Shumei hurriedly covered the water bag, turned around and ran away.
At this moment, the sister-in-law Lu Cuilan, who was named by Gao Shumei, was talking ill of Jiang Tangtang to Mrs. Su.
"Sister-in-law, no matter how much Saburo likes that vixen, he can't give all his food to her, right? Forget about others, Yan Wazi is his biological child after all, how could he be willing to starve the child like this?"
Su Shi glared at her sister-in-law, "Don't talk nonsense, your third nephew is not such a person!"
Before the third son was injured, when did he find something on the mountain and not hand it over to her for distribution?
On the contrary, he despised his grandson for being mute and deducted his food from time to time.
Unfortunately, he couldn't speak, and Jiang had a careless and unreliable temperament. The younger son was busy all day long, and no one noticed in the end.
Looking at her little grandson who was as thin as a bean sprout, Mrs. Su felt inexplicably guilty and couldn't help but visit her injured third son.
Looking at her son who was sitting upright with his eyes closed, as if he was asleep, Mrs. Su felt inexplicably frightened.
Lu Cuilan didn't notice anything unusual about her sister-in-law, and continued: "Sister-in-law, I know Sanlang's character, and I didn't say I didn't trust him. I meant that the Jiang family has been pestering Sanlang like a vixen all day long. He has some good qualities, no.
Did you give it all to her? Let me tell you, if you want to marry a virtuous wife, you and your eldest brother should not have agreed to Saburo marrying such a vixen in the first place."
Chapter completed!