Spring in the south is a tender green on the earth. The weeds are reborn, the treetops are budding, and the buds on the branches are in bud.

Dayuanba Village is dozens of miles away from Yugan County, Raozhou Prefecture. The water network is dense here, and the number of winding rivers and streams is unclear. Canoes with bamboo poles on the river surface, and black-sailed boats with water can be seen everywhere. In the paddy fields, farmers with straw hats and oxen have started to plow for a year.

A woman with white hair and messy hair and dark skin came back with a large pig grass on her back. She walked through a small road among the bamboo forest, a dam, and a few thatched huts. This was the Du family's house.

The door opened by the small earth dam is the back door, and the kitchen is the kitchen when you enter. A young lady quickly came up to catch the woman's back.

The woman immediately started nagging, "Non was still a little bitch at that time. Daddy wanted to sell you, and she cried several times. She was so white and tender that she lived well outside. What would she do when she came back? Look at what life could Lining in the countryside live."

I have been away from home for too long, and my little girl has difficulty hearing the local accent. She is Du Qianrui. She is now wearing a ill-fitting white dress, but her skin is white and tender, and she looks very unmatched. She looks like she has a big-name lady's skin, but she lives as a village girl.

After hearing this, Du Qianrui asked softly, "I'm back, are you unhappy?"

"It's okay to be hungry." Du's mother shook her head, "It's just that Dad Nong and Di Lang got the money and went to the county town. Everyone is farming the fields. Dad Nong doesn't go back to Qin's house, what will he eat this year?"

After hearing this, Du Qianrui was speechless and had to snatch the pig grass on her back: "I'll chop it up."

The clothes she wore were also taken care of, so she could only wear her mother's clothes. Although she took out the property and her father and brother were very satisfied with her, her mother was not satisfied...

Just as my mother usually nagged, my father used to go to the nearby market town to gamble and look for boat ladies, and almost had to go home at night. Now he has got the money and has gone to the county town. He has not seen anyone for almost a month and will not come back at night.

At present, rice fields have to be plowed before they can be planted and seedlings are raised. It is the busy farming period, so my mother is very anxious.

Du Qianrui picked up an old hatchet, pillowed with a wooden board, and started chopping the fodder. Her fingers were wrapped with two cloths, which were scratched by her usual work. She had not worked for many years, but she had become clumsy and easily injured.

...Almost all the jewelry and all the slightly valuable things brought back were paid to my father for the debt. Now Du Qianrui only had a green Hetian jade bracelet left, which was hidden in her underwear and not taken out; this bracelet was really beautiful, and her father took it away and took it very cheaply, so she really couldn't bear it.

If you have no money, your father may come back to farm, and your mother won't blame her. Du Qianrui doesn't know what will happen, nor what to do.

"Ah!" She screamed, and saw a hole in the index finger of her left hand, and blood immediately soaked out and dripped down. Du Qianrui was both painful and sad, and tears immediately fell down.

At this time, my mother ran over and stamped her feet and said, "I can do nothing, I'm hungry. Go out to sweep the yard."

The fingers were cut and bleeding, which was nothing in the eyes of the villagers! Du Qianrui quickly wiped tears with her sleeve, gritted her teeth, took her fingers into her mouth to suck and let her spit them out.

She went to the kitchen silently, picked up the broom and went out.

She couldn't sweep one hand, so she had to hold a broom in both hands. The blood of her fingers that had just been injured had not stopped and soon dyed the grass shank red. Du Qianrui was holding tears, and no one could blame him... After she returned home, she only did some light work. If she couldn't do it well, who else could she blame?

It turned out that she thought that she was always humiliated by others in Fuleyuan. She was already miserable. She realized now that she had long been unaccustomed to her family life and was doing a cheap business in the capital. It seemed that she was also good, and she didn't have to sell herself.

...Perhaps, we should cherish the good days in the capital. After all, not all women can join the Jiaofangsi and Fuleyuan as musicians.

Just like my mother, she used to be a boat girl... she sold herself on a ragged black-sailed boat. She was also humiliated and had to pick up customers, and she couldn't afford the price.

Because my mother was a boat girl, she got married in her twenties and gave birth to their siblings one after another. The man she married was a prostitute and visited her business many times, and later became Du Qianrui's father.

It’s also a low-key business, what is my mother now? She is just in her early forties and looks like a sixty-year-old. But her mother has no choice. Among their sisters, some of them are not married and are still picking up customers to survive. She is even worse when she gets old, and sometimes even old customers who pay a few cents a day.

Du Qianrui looked at her mother's fate and fantasized that she was still in the capital Fuleyuan. She thought that she would probably be much better than her mother in the next few years. She used sex to deal with people, what are the remaining people with old age? What talent and what is the effect of losing a good baby? If you live well, save some money and learn some skills, you will probably be as good as a busty in Fuleyuan.

At this moment, she saw that the dogwood beside the yard had sprouted new buds. Although the red fruit had not yet grown, Du Qianrui also stood there and looked blankly for a long time.

...Dogwood? Is it the kind of short tree with many small red fruits?

A voice in my mind said. The tone of each word and the tone of speaking seemed to be in my ears, as if I had just murmured in her ears.

Du Qianrui even remembered the spotless white silk lining under the bronze neck, and the thoughtful eyes, quiet but sharp.

At this moment, a metal knocking sound came from outside the bamboo forest, and then someone shouted: "Bee candy, handkerchief, hairpin... Dingdang!"

Du Qianrui was stunned, her eyes cast from the deep bamboo forest path, as if she had passed through a corridor of time, and returned to her childhood years ago, when she was thinking about the age of everything in the load carrying the peddler, and the funny expectation of a peddler taking her away.

...Your thoughts at that time were indeed a bit immature, and the peddler might not be able to help you.

The voice said again.

Du Qianrui's face suddenly showed a bitter smile, and tears were still hanging on the corners of her eyes.

Why? It didn’t take long to get to know each other and parting, but his shadow was deeply imprinted in Du Qianrui’s heart, and I’m afraid he will never forget it for a lifetime. Perhaps the reason was that he gave Du Qianrui hope. If there was no expectation, how could he be so lost?

...

When night fell, there was a barking of dogs outside and a faint voice came from people. Soon, my mother knocked on Du Qianrui's door in the main hall, "Come out quickly, Dad Nong is back!"

Du Qianrui had to open the door bolt. With a bean-sized oil lamp, she saw her father bringing back a strange fat man. The fat man was wearing a robe and a scarf. He was probably over forty or fifty years old, and the fat on his face was already a little drooping. When the fat man heard the sound of the door, he immediately turned his head over, and his eyes were even straightened!

As soon as I arrived at someone else's house, I stared at someone's family. This person was rude. But what kind of serious people can a person like my father get?

Du Qianrui was about to close the door, but his father was immediately annoyed and slapped the old square table with a "bang" and said, "No discipline! Don't come out to salute?"

Du Qianrui looked helpless, but at home, how could she disobey her father? She had to walk out slowly and reluctantly.

"This is Manager Li." Dad pointed to the fat man next to him and said with a smile.

The fat man also laughed "hehe" and actually wiped his saliva with his sleeve! Seeing this, Du Qianrui felt nauseous and almost retching.

She saw the smile on her father's face suddenly disappear again, and she was frowning and giving her a wink. Du Qianrui had to bow her knees slightly and said, "I have met Manager Li. It's late, and I can't meet guests, please forgive me."

"Oh! Yoh!" Manager Li was very excited, "Ministry of the capital! Yes, Lao Du, you are so hungry. You are very hungry, so just offer a price."

"What?" Du Qianrui was about to turn around and go back to the room, and immediately stood still. She turned around, her body trembling slightly, and her face suddenly pale, "Dad, are you going to sell me for the second time?"

Before Old Du could speak, shopkeeper Li said frankly, "Miss Du! I must be self-aware, Daddy, it's also for my goodness. Where do I want to marry? I'll tie some muds in the countryside, and I'll be like your mother in the future! It won't last long to go back to prostitution."

"I'm not a prostitute!" Du Qianrui said angrily.

In fact, my father despised her mother for not living well, and insulted her as a prostitute indiscriminately... But my father had no expression on his face. Du Qianrui suddenly felt that even if he endured the disgust and followed Manager Li, he would not have a good life!

Lao Du said in his voice: "Shopkeeper Li runs a pawn shop, and the girl is a concubine for him, and she is delicious and delicious. I don't dislike him."

No wonder my father knew him. He probably worked as a slightly valuable thing in Manager Li’s shop.

Manager Li immediately took over the conversation, "My sister is in the hungry shop. I will follow me and I will give them all the things."

Du Qianrui exhaled secretly, "I have a little cold wind and can't hold on anymore, so I'll let me go back to my room to rest."

"You need medicine for wind and cold!" Manager Li said seriously.

"Forget it!" Lao Du said, "Go into the house."

Du Qianrui immediately hid in the bedroom separated by a wall and quickly bolted the door.

My father's shout came from outside, "Woman, you can't even get water, bring it quickly!"

Then there was a mother's "gurgling" voice. She didn't dare to speak too loudly, and she couldn't hear clearly through the wall. After a while, her father's angry scolding came, "Let's find a good home for the eldest sister! You're so stubborn, what are you doing to support your family?"

Then the mother said in a vague way. The father said again: "I know how much money to plow the field? Isn't Hungry thinking about it? Shopkeeper Li gave the money, hungry paid off the debt, and the few left to ask for someone."

Du Qianrui plunged on the rough quilt, covered her head in it, and couldn't help crying. In order to prevent being heard, she covered her tightly. Soon she couldn't breathe, so she had to hold back the crying and opened the quilt and breathe.
Chapter completed!