In 1975, on the wood village.
Shangmu Village is a small village in Jiangnan Water Township.
It is located on the west side of a large river that flows into the sea. There is also a small river winding through the village. The land is fertile and the water and grass are abundant. The people who live here have been farming and raising silkworms for generations.
Today is the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the weather is neither cold nor hot, and the villagers in Shangmu Village are busy digging sweet potatoes.
In Shangmu Village, rice has been grown all the time. In some places, it is grown twice a year, and in some places, it is grown once a year. In this way, the annual output of rice is still good, but most of the rice has to be handed over to the public. I can't eat white rice all the time.
Therefore, the sweet potatoes dug today are particularly important - they all rely on sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs!
Digging sweet potatoes is a physical task. Early in the morning, the young and middle-aged people in the village took iron rakes and plowed the fields where the sweet potato vines had been cut.
Gu Mingxiu was turning over.
He was very thin, but his strength was not small. As soon as he raked down, a large piece of mud was turned over with a lot of sweet potatoes.
The women in the village ripped apart the dug up mud with their hands, found sweet potatoes and threw them into the bamboo basket next to them.
Occasionally, I saw some large sweet potatoes were stabbed by Gu Mingxiu's iron rake, and I would sigh: "It's a pity for such a big sweet potato."
While they were talking, they threw the injured sweet potatoes into another bamboo basket—such sweet potatoes couldn't be stored for a long time, they had to be eaten quickly.
Gu Mingxiu kept turning the ground. The women followed him and the other people to pick up sweet potatoes. Behind them, there were some children with runny noses, holding a basket to pick up the ones dropped by the woman in front, but their fingers size sweet potatoes, or sweet potato roots.
These little sweet potatoes are full of "jins", which are thick plant fibers, but they can fill their stomachs anyway, so no one is willing to waste them.
Moreover, the large sweet potatoes have to be handed over to the village for the village chief to divide them, but these small sweet potatoes can be taken home directly.
In order to bring more sweet potatoes home, some women leave their children behind, and then deliberately drop some sweet potatoes that are slightly larger and the size of eggs, and those children will have a lot more harvest.
They are all from the villagers, and generally no one says anything.
However, when everyone was doing it, someone suddenly said, "Where is Yan Zhiqing? Didn't he come again?"
Their village is next to a town, with less land and more people, and there are not many educated youths who come. Most of them are relatives of the villagers. If people from the nearby towns and counties want to go to the countryside, they all choose the surrounding villages, and some go directly to their relatives. .
But this educated youth is different. He came from the capital two years ago.
That is the capital!
When he first came, the people in the village were very strange, and they all went to see him, but now... the people in the village have avoided him.
This educated youth is tall and big, and his body looks very strong, but he is too lazy!
He has been here for two years, and the work in the fields is still unsatisfactory. He knows to hide at home and be lazy all day.
"That educated youth is really too lazy."
"Before Zhang Zugen's daughter took a fancy to him, and recently gave up her thoughts."
"Can't you stop thinking about it? He's so lazy, he's getting poorer..."
…
This educated youth, the people in the village really don't know what to say about him.
When he first came, he looked bright and bright, and the leather shoes were all rubbed with oil. Everyone thought that his family must be rich, but it was not.
In the past two years, no one has sent him anything!
In the first year, he relied on selling the things he brought, and he was able to survive anyway. In the second year, he relied on borrowing food from the village and people around him.
This borrowed food from the village, and he has to write down every stroke. He always does not work, and he will definitely not be able to do it by the end of the year. This...
More importantly, the villagers also learned that the ingredients in his family were not very good.
The people of this water town in the south of the Yangtze River have soft personalities. In the past few years, there has been a lot of chaos outside. They will also pull people to criticize them, but the tossing is not serious, so no one does anything to Yan Zhiqing, but everyone does not love it. approach him.
Even if he is good-looking and literate, just because of his laziness and poor composition, those girls who were initially in love with him at first retreated.
Everyone in the village felt that if the educated youth continued like this, they would be a bachelor for the rest of their lives!
As for another person in the village who may be a bachelor for the rest of his life, that is Gu Mingxiu, who is trying to turn the ground.
Gu Mingxiu is the best-looking person in their village. He is not worse than Zhiyan's educated youth, and he works hard. When he was fifteen years old, he was able to get the same work points as adults when he was working in the farm work in the team.
But he also has fatal flaws.
First of all, his composition is also bad - Gu Mingxiu's grandfather was the big landlord in the village back then.
Gu's family used to be in the raw silk business.
Their family built a large yard with a wall of three meters high by the big river, and built a wharf. For decades in the morning, when the cocoons were harvested every year, the people nearby came here to sell the cocoons by boat. People come and go, and the silver dollars to pay the bills must be placed in bamboo baskets.
The grandfather of the Gu family once could not tell the scenery, and the grandfather of Gu Mingxiu went to the big city to study, and was the only one in the village.
Too bad times are changing so fast.
Before Gu Mingxiu was born, the Gu family was already defeated. Not long after he was born, his father committed suicide for various reasons. After that, Gu Mingxiu's mother took Gu Mingxiu to marry an old bachelor in the village who could not marry a wife, and gave birth to four more child.
But even if Gu Mingxiu's mother remarried, Gu Mingxiu's composition is still not good, many people are reluctant to marry him, not to mention... He still has a family dragging him down.
Gu Mingxiu was in his stepfather's house, so he was just an oil bottle. When he was a child, he needed to do farm work to take care of his younger siblings. He was also the son of a landlord, and he was always bullied in the village, so he had a bad life.
However, this is the case, and God still won't let him go.
When Gu Mingxiu was fourteen years old, his stepfather became ill and his belly was getting bigger and bigger. He went to the hospital and the doctor said that he could not be cured, so he died like that.
His mother was not in good health. She was pregnant with a child at the time, and fell ill all of a sudden. Later, when the child was born, the child came out on the foot first...
The midwife pulled hard, and the woman was gone.
Gu Mingxiu is in his twenties this year. There are no elders in the family to help him, but he has four half-brothers and sisters to take care of. The youngest is only six years old... Who would want to marry him
However, although Gu Mingxiu's father was a landlord, the old man of the Gu family had always been kind to others, and Gu Mingxiu was very miserable, so the people in the village were quite friendly to Gu Mingxiu.
Gu Mingxiu would still be pulled out and criticized at the occasional criticism meeting.
This year, there is no way.
The sun is gradually setting from the west, and it is time to call it a day.
Yan Zhiqing still did not come to the ground.
The aunts couldn't help but sigh again.
"It's rare to be as lazy as Yan Zhiqing!" one of them said, "He will starve to death sooner or later."
Gu Mingxiu carried the iron rake on his back and was walking to the place where farm implements were stored in the village. Hearing this, he couldn't help but say, "He is sick..."
"Sick? You believe in this kind of nonsense." The gossip women rolled their eyes and said that Zhiqing's white and chubby appearance was sick
Gu Mingxiu didn't agree with these women's words, but he didn't like to argue with others, so he kept his mouth shut.
There used to be a small temple in Shangmu Village with several Bodhisattvas dedicated to it. This temple was built by the Gu family, but the mud Bodhisattva in the temple had been thrown away a few years ago. Now this temple has become a village. A place to store various things.
The tractors in the village, the farm tools used by everyone, the harvested millet grains, etc., are all placed in this temple.
Gu Mingxiu put down the iron rake and went home.
In the early years, the village had a big pot of rice, but now it has been discontinued.
Compared with the time of famine more than ten years ago, everyone's life has been much better. Like Gu Mingxiu's family, only Gu Mingxiu works hard. Three of the four younger brothers and sisters are in their teens and want to study. The youngest is because He was suffocated and sickly in his mother's belly, and he always had a bad time.
However, they have been harvesting sweet potatoes for the past few days, and the village also distributed the sweet potatoes that were injured during digging early, so that they would not be hungry.
When Gu Mingxiu returned home, he smelled the smell of burning sweet potatoes.
Gu Mingxiu's four younger siblings are two men and two women.
His stepfather's surname is also Gu, and his younger siblings have the same surname. Among them, the oldest brother is fifteen this year, named Gu Yubao, the second sister is thirteen this year, named Gu Yulan, the third sister is twelve this year, named Gu Yuxian, and the youngest is a boy, six years old this year, named Gu Yukang.
At this moment, the third sister, Gu Yuxian, had just cooked the sweet potatoes.
Washed the sweet potatoes and put them in the iron pot to cook for a long time. The sweet potatoes were sticking to the iron pot and burnt to one side, and the sweet potatoes were cooked. When the sweet potatoes were being cooked, she also put a bowl on the steaming rack. Put in a little rice and steam a bowl of rice.
This meal is for Gu Yukang.
Gu Yukang is weak, but stubborn. He doesn't eat sweet potatoes. If only sweet potatoes are used, he can stop eating and cry non-stop.
Gu Mingxiu was never a picky eater. He went home, washed his hands, took the sweet potato from the pot, and ate it with the skin on.
While eating, Gu Yubao, who was studying in junior high school in the town, came back.
Their village is very close to the town. The children of the village go to primary school in the village. The school is the Gu family's house with a three-meter-high wall, and everyone from junior high school goes to the town to study.
Of course, most people don't go to junior high school.
"What's there to eat at home today?" Gu Yubao got into the kitchen and was unhappy when he saw that there were only sweet potatoes in the pot: "Only sweet potatoes?"
After he finished speaking, he saw the rice next to him: "This bowl of rice is for me."
"It's Yukang's." Gu Yuxian wanted to stop his second brother, but Gu Yubao picked up the bowl and took a bite on the rice that was steamed and browned with a little burnt sweet potato flavor without using chopsticks. .
"This is Yukang's." Gu Mingxiu frowned.
"Brother, I want to eat rice too." Gu Yubao reached for chopsticks.
"You ate at noon, and you ate eggs." Gu Mingxiu snatched the bowl.
Gu Yubao is a junior high school student in the town and brings meals every day.
Their own food has always been bad, but Gu Yubao said that everyone in the school ate very well, and it was shameful to eat badly. Gu Mingxiu could only ask him to bring rice to school, and cook an egg every day, cut it in half and drizzle it with soy sauce. cook for him.
"I still want to eat at night." Gu Yubao said confidently.
Back then, when Gu Mingxiu's stepfather and mother were still there, Gu Yubao was his favorite. After all, this was his stepfather's first child, and he was still a son.
It is also because of this that Gu Yubao has developed the temperament that he must have what he wants from a young age.
Gu Mingxiu used to follow Gu Yubao, but today he was tired all day, and he had something in his heart, so he said, "If you make trouble again, take sweet potatoes to school tomorrow."
After speaking, Gu Mingxiu gave Gu Yuxian the bowl in his hand.
Gu Yubao frowned in dissatisfaction.
Gu Yuxian was afraid that Gu Yubao would make trouble again, so she hurriedly brought a bowl to feed Gu Yukang—the six-year-old Gu Yukang didn’t know if it was because he had been in his mother’s belly for a long time, and the whole person was a bit stunned. Whenever there is something happening every day, I know how to call my brother and sister in my voice.
"You're good to that fool!" Gu Yubao pouted and picked the best-looking sweet potato to eat.
And at this time, Gu Yulan came back.
The two sisters of the Gu family are called Gu Yulan and Gu Yuxian. They should be beautiful girls by their names, but in fact...
Gu Mingxiu's stepfather is not very good looking, so the two sisters are also ugly, dark and small.
Among them, Gu Yuxian is a little younger, and she works at home while taking care of her children while studying in elementary school. Gu Yulan is a little older and doesn't like to read, and has already started working.
When she came back today, she was carrying a basket in her hand and showed it to her family proudly: "Look, after I got off work, I went to pick up a lot of sweet potatoes and came back!"
The sweet potatoes in her basket were all quite big, Gu Mingxiu frowned: "Why are they so big?"
Gu Yulan said, "I hid it secretly, and after everyone left, I went back to get it..."
"Aren't you afraid of being caught?" Gu Mingxiu frowned, although these sweet potatoes will be divided later, but if they are secretly hidden and taken away, they will be criticized!
"You won't be caught! And you do it all." Gu Yulan looked at Gu Mingxiu: "Brother, you are too honest!"
Gu Mingxiu was a little helpless, he felt that this was not good, but he didn't know what to say.
After eating, Gu Mingxiu went out: "I went out."
Gu Yulan said, "Brother, are you going to town? I'll go with you."
Gu Mingxiu immediately refused: "You stay at home."
Gu Yulan probably suffered when she was a child, she was hungry, she wanted to take everything she saw when she went out, and her hands and feet were not very clean, so he didn't dare to take anyone out because she was afraid that she would be beaten or arrested for causing trouble.
Gu Yulan rolled her eyes and stopped talking.
At night in the village, there is a vigil, not one person, but several people, to avoid people stealing sweet potatoes or something.
Gu Mingxiu went out and did not go into the ground, but went to the town.
The people in the town have public grain to eat, and they live very well, and they look down on the country people. They call them "country turtles".
Gu Mingxiu is not as hostile to the people in the town as some people in the village, but he does envy them.
The people of the town had a great time.
When he arrived in the town, Gu Mingxiu went directly to the supply point in the town to pick up sugar cane tips.
The sweet potato harvest has been bumper recently, and sugar cane is also on the market.
Shangmu Village and nearby villages all grow sugarcane. After harvesting, some of them are distributed in the village, some are sent to sugar production, and some are sent to nearby counties and towns to supply local residents.
And this kind of local specialty, or do not need a ticket.
In the past few days, the people in the town, basically every household will buy some sugar cane to eat. They are not like the country people. They just take the skin and eat it after washing it. They often have to peel the skin before buying it home, no matter how bad it is. It will make people cut off their heads and tails.
In this way, the tip of the top of the sugarcane will be cut off and the leaves above it will be cut off and left on the ground, and this tip will be picked up by someone.
The top end of the sugar cane is not sweet, but the children in the countryside who lack snacks will still pick it up and eat it. After eating it, it can be dried and used as firewood.
This is a plain, and the land that can be reclaimed has basically been reclaimed. Anyway, there are no such things as forests.
This has also resulted in a situation in which every household has insufficient firewood to burn.
Gu's family used the straw and mulberry sticks distributed from the village to burn the fire, but this was not enough. In order to make more firewood, after the rice was cut, at night, Gu Mingxiu would go to the ground to pull the roots of the rice. Will come to town to pick up sugar cane tip.
Gu Mingxiu picked up a lot in one go, bundled them up and took them home.
When he got home, it was already very dark, but there were still many people in the village with light shining through.
Their village is connected to electricity because it is far from the town. Of course, there are not many people who are willing to use electricity.
As soon as Gu Mingxiu came home, several children in the family rushed up, and from those sugarcane stubs, they turned to eat what they could eat.
Gu Yukang shouted at the top of his voice: "Sister! Sister!"
He couldn't get it to eat by himself, so he asked someone to help him get it.
Gu Yubao never cared about his younger brother, Gu Yukang, and Gu Yulan only cared about eating for himself, so Gu Yuxian found a piece of stubble, washed it clean, bit the skin with his mouth and tore it off, and then fed it to his younger brother.
The tip of this sugar cane is not sweet at all, and Gu Yukang doesn't want it after taking two bites, and Gu Yuxian starts to eat it by himself.
At this time, Gu Mingxiu took two sugar cane stalks that he had long been optimistic about, stood up, and went out.
Gu Yubao frowned: "Where is my brother going?"
"It might be to catch frogs." Gu Yuxian said, "I'll go catch them tomorrow too.
Gu Yubao thought of frogs, licked his lips, and threw down the unsweetened sugar cane tip and went back to the room.
Gu Mingxiu did not go to catch frogs.
He wanted to go, but he was tired all day, and he went to town again, and he really had no energy.
In fact, he was hungry at the moment - just eating sweet potatoes always made him hungry very fast.
The sugarcane tip was not sweet, but Gu Mingxiu was still a little greedy, but he didn't eat it.
He went to the well to wash the ends of the two sugar cane ends on his hands, and then went to Gu's old house, where his own father lived.
This house is now used as a primary school, and at the same time, there is an educated youth living in it, that is, the lazy Yan Zhiqing, Yan Jingze.
Gu Mingxiu thinks that the name Yanjing is very pleasant, and Yan Zhiqing is also very good-looking.
Since Yan Jingze came to the village, he has noticed this educated youth, and he likes this person from the bottom of his heart and wants to make him happy.
But he would still secretly send things to Yan Jingze.
He can't take out the food at home, but usually he tries to find something that can be imported, and he will always tell the youth a little bit.
Today, Yan Zhiqing was ill again, and he didn't go to work, so he wanted to give Yan Zhiqing something, but unfortunately he didn't have anything to give, only sugar cane.
Even if he picked it up specially when he picked it up, compared to the sweeter twigs, this thing is a bit difficult to give away.
When Yan Zhiqing was in Beijing before, he must have been able to eat whole sugar cane.
Thinking of this, Gu Mingxiu felt a little embarrassed.
But he still knocked softly on the door.
Yan Jing crossed over.
He woke up suddenly, and suddenly found himself in a hut with four walls and a strange smell.
It was already dark outside, and there was nothing at home. He wanted to light a lamp and couldn't find the place, but his stomach was still growling...
Yan Jing was speechless.
Where did he wear it
It’s okay to go through time, and it’s okay to not give him the memory of the past. Why doesn’t he have the memory of the original owner of this body
How does this keep him alive
If he goes out tomorrow, will he show his feet and be arrested directly
Yan Jing became more and more entangled the more he thought about it, his stomach became more and more hungry, and his whole body was sluggish.
However, he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't dare to go out for a walk. It's dark everywhere, and he doesn't know where he can go.
He could only lie on the bed helplessly, intending to stay up until dawn.
Just then, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.
The voice was low, but it was very obvious in the quiet dark night, someone came to him
Yan Jing got off the wooden bed and groped forward.
The knocking stopped, and the people outside the door left
Yan Jing was a little anxious, he rushed to the door, fumbled to pull the bolt, and finally opened the door.
It took a lot of time to open the door, but Yan Jing was already prepared for no one outside the door. He didn't expect the door to open and saw a person.
There was moonlight outside the house, allowing him to see this man clearly.
This was a very handsome man in his twenties, with sharp eyebrows and star eyes. As soon as he saw this man, Yan Jing felt his heart beat faster.
He couldn't tell what it felt like, only one thing - he was in love with this guy!
He fell in love at first sight!
After traveling to a strange place, he fell in love at first sight with a complete stranger to him.
But he couldn't control his feelings, just seeing this person in front of him, he felt that his heart no longer belonged to him.
"You..." Yan Jing opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Gu Mingxiu was annoyed when he knocked on the door and no one answered.
At this point, the sick Yan Zhiqing may have already fallen asleep. If he knocks on the door like this, will he disturb others
He no longer knocked on the door, he planned to leave the things in his hand at the door, but he was afraid that someone would take it away in the end.
Yan Zhiqing was taller than everyone in his village, and he looked solid... It was said that it was because of the height of the northerners.
Gu Mingxiu opened his mouth: "Yan Zhiqing, I brought something for you, I..."
"Would you like to come in and sit?" Yan Jing asked.
Gu Mingxiu looked at Yan Jingze in surprise.
The country people are all dirty and have lice. Yan Zhiqing didn't let people in before, but now they let him in
Just as he was stunned, Gu Mingxiu stumbled when Yan Zhiqing before him met, and put his hands on the door frame to stabilize his body.
Yan Zhiqing is really sick, and he should be seriously ill!
Gu Mingxiu immediately stepped forward and supported Yan Jingze: "Yan Zhiqing, are you alright?"
Yan Jing took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, "I'm fine."
He was really fine, he just fainted suddenly.
And the reason why he fainted was because he got the memory of the original owner.
Yan Jing gritted his teeth, and he was already pissed off - the original owner, what a scumbag!