Chapter 1 One kick, another kick
"Look at the question! Where are your eyes looking?"
Chu Qing slapped his hand on the table and yelled at his son, "A chicken and a rabbit live in the same cage. If there are x chickens, how many legs does the chicken have?"
It has been more than 40 minutes, and I have just solved this problem. I have said it over and over again no less than 8 times. I still can't solve the problem by changing the numbers.
Seeing her son's face at a loss as to what he was thinking, Chu Qing picked up the ruler with the "Heart Sutra" engraved on it and slapped it on his shoulder!
Looking at her furious mother, Meng Dong muttered: "Take me back to my childhood! You never hit me when I was a child and you loved me very much. If you don't love me now, you are no longer my mother!"
A breath was stuck in his throat, and Chu Qing was speechless. He felt hot blood rushing to the top of his head, and his headache was about to explode! And Meng knew that after saying those words, he slammed the door and went out! Chu Qing's eyesight went dark.
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"Well……"
Feeling a sudden pain in her abdomen, which was so painful that she felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, Chu Qing opened her eyes and saw a woman in ancient costume with her hands on her hips and a ferocious look on her face, while she was lying on the ground.
"Get out! Get out now! Get out now! Get out of here right now!"
Before he finished speaking, the woman in ancient costume stepped forward and kicked Chu Qing in the abdomen.
"Well……"
Unable to help but groan again, Chu Qing understood that this should be the second kick. The first kick was the reason why she woke up just now. This kick was not light. Chu Qing even said "Who am I? Where am I?"
"What am I doing?" He didn't even ask the important three-click question before he fainted again.
In a hazy state, Chu Qing seemed to have had a dream or watched a video.
In a small village that is as backward as in a costume TV series, a family's firewood shed.
A woman in her early twenties picked up an armful of firewood and was about to leave the woodshed when she heard her eldest uncle and aunt's sister-in-law talking quietly to someone in the outer courtyard, saying something like "pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other".
The woman walked out of the woodshed in confusion, and saw a familiar half-worn dark blue floral swaddling clothes being handed into the arms of a bearded man by her eldest uncle, while her eldest uncle and sister-in-law happily took the two silver ingots handed over by the bearded man.
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"Wow..." The baby's cry came from the swaddling clothes. The familiar voice and the familiar swaddling clothes instantly made the woman understand that her half-year-old son had been sold by this couple!
"Understood..." the woman shouted and rushed forward, but was slapped to the ground by her eldest brother. She hurriedly got up and wanted to chase after her, but she saw that the bearded man had already climbed onto the horseback with the baby in his arms and was riding away from Juechen.
go……
The scene flashed by in a hurry, showing the woman tied up and lying in the woodshed, with the door of the woodshed tightly closed. The woman had been locked up for two days, with no water or rice, and she was in a state of confusion.
The door of the woodshed was opened, and the light outside was dazzling. Two strong women walked in in broad daylight. Like pigs waiting to be slaughtered, they used a long stick to carry the rope that bound the women and walked out. Outside the door,
The uncle and sister-in-law were happily weighing the five taels of silver in their hands...
The scene changed again. The woman used a trick to untie the two strong women on the road, knocked the two strong women unconscious with the wooden stick that was holding her, and tied the two strong women back to back with the rope that bound her, with their necks
He spared them several times, searched the two strong women for scraps of silver, and staggered away...
The scene changed again, and the woman inquired all the way to a small town. She used her last copper coins to buy a set of used clothes and walked into a small restaurant. She found a job as a cook and stayed there temporarily.
The woman's cooking skills were pretty good, which made the stagnant business start to improve, and the restaurant proprietress asked the maid next to her to hold her son and go shopping with her every day...
Time flies, more than two years later, the boss lady dislikes her son more and more, and refuses to hug her son. She even often pokes the child in the mouth with her finger, mumbling, "Why is he such a fool? Why can't he speak?"
But the child just bit her lower lip and looked at her intently, without crying or even showing an expression.
Chu Qing slowly opened her eyes, what an inexplicable dream! She slowly got up, her abdomen was still hurting, and the shoe prints were still clearly on her body. Chu Qing was confused, what kind of clothes is this? A skirt or a coat?
The gown has a slanted lapel, is dusty, and is very rough.
Looking around, I found myself in an alley full of sewage. No one was passing by, and I couldn't find anyone to ask.
Through the sewage on the ground, Chu Qing could clearly see what she looked like now: a gray slanted jacket, her hair combed in the bun of an ancient married woman that could only be seen on TV, with a piece of hair on the bun that was as gray as the clothes.
The slippery veil, and that face...
Chu Qing was shocked. She looked around nervously, but there was no one else there. It seemed that the person reflected in the water was really her, the face of the woman in the dream!
After calming down, another picture flashed through Chu Qing's mind. Oh, I understand. I am the woman in the dream. Her husband was drafted. Three months later, bad news came, saying that the war was tight and the new recruits had just been drafted.
He went directly to the battlefield, and not a single one out of a hundred survived. The survivor from the next village who came back from a serious injury held his head and cried, "They are all dead... They are all dead...".
The eldest brother was smart and pretended to break his leg during the military recruitment, so that his younger brother could serve as a soldier, leaving behind his sister-in-law and their newborn child. After learning that none of the drafted soldiers in the village survived, he sold his younger brother's child and then his sister-in-law.
, not only received twenty-five taels of silver, but also monopolized the family property.
Chu Qing shook his head and sighed helplessly: He had traveled through time. I am afraid that he had a cerebral hemorrhage to tutor his children in their homework. I am afraid that I am the first person to do so.
"Gululu..." The sound of bowel sounds interrupted his thoughts, and he pressed his stomach. It hurt, and he was still hungry.
A small hand pulled up the corner of Chu Qing's clothes. Chu Qing lowered his head and saw a somewhat familiar child, looking at him steadily with no expression. This was the son of the landlady in his dream.
Chu Qing knelt down and looked at the child. The picture that flashed through her mind told her that this was not the boss's wife's biological child. The boss's wife found out she was pregnant last month and treated the child even worse. She would hit and scold her, and often would not do anything.
Give me food to eat, say you've lost a lot of money, spend so much money in exchange for a fool, don't respond to anything, can't speak, you are a fool!
It turned out that the landlady had been married for several years without having any children, so she adopted a child. She was fine with the child at first and liked it very much. However, after the child was more than one year old, he still didn’t speak and became anxious.
When he is two years old and still doesn't speak, he gets even more upset and dislikes it more and more. In addition, the child doesn't cry or fuss or shows any expression, so he suspects he is a fool. When he looks like he is three years old and still doesn't speak, the neighbors are keeping his back.
Laughing at her.
It just so happened that I was pregnant, and I couldn’t even look down on this child.
Because the restaurant owner couldn't sleep with a pregnant woman, he targeted Chu Qing, the cook. During a fight with the restaurant owner, Chu Qing was knocked into the face by the proprietress, so he lied and said that Chu Qing had stolen money from the counter and that he was searching her body.
We have been married for several years. How can the landlady not know what kind of character the boss is? If she didn't have many brothers in her mother's family, she would probably have a lot of wives and concubines in her family.
But if you see through it, you can't tell it off, and you have to live your life. It just so happened that the lie told by the boss was a good excuse, so the landlady and the restaurant waiter knocked Chu Qingyi unconscious on the ground, kicked him a few times, and threw him out of the back door.
Chu Qing looked at the child in front of him who was thinking, his expression a little dull.
"Gululu..." There was another bowel sound, and Chu Qing finally came back to her senses.
"Xiaobao..." Chu Qing just spoke. The child in front of him, Xiaobao, took something out of his arms and handed it to Chu Qing. It was a boiled egg.
"Where... did you get it?" Xiaobao pointed to the door behind Chu Qing, which was the back door of the tavern. Where could a child under three years old get eggs to eat?
Chu Qing shook her head: "I'm not hungry. You can eat. Go back after eating, or your mother will beat you again." Xiaobao had no expression or movement. It should be said that he didn't react. He just kept holding up the
eggs.
"Xiaobao, go home quickly, it's time for me to leave."
Chu Qing stood up and prepared to leave.
No matter how bad Xiaobao's situation is, at least he still has a roof over his head, but he has been kicked out and doesn't know where to go.
Turning around to leave, Xiaobao was grabbed by the corner of her clothes again. This time, Xiaobao was holding on to the corner of her clothes with one hand, while the other hand was still holding the egg.
"Do you want me to eat it?" Chu Qing knelt down and looked at Xiaobao, who brought the egg close to Chu Qing's mouth. Chu Qing was hungry, so he didn't push it away, peeled the shell, took a bite, and then brought it to Chu Qing's mouth.
Xiaobao said: "It's your turn." Xiaobao didn't respond, but still looked at him. Chu Qing waited for a while and thought to herself: "Is this kid really a fool?"
After eating a whole egg, Chu Qing felt even hungrier. She had to quickly find a place to stay before it got dark.
So I said goodbye to Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, the eggs are delicious. I'm full. Thank you. I really have to leave. If I don't leave, it will get dark and I won't have anywhere to stay."
Xiaobao reacted this time. Both of his little hands grasped Chu Qing's clothes tightly. "You want to come with me? That's not possible. Your mother and father will get angry."
Xiaobao's little hands tightened again, pulling, and then turned to look at the entrance of the alley. Chu Qing saw the fingerprints on Xiaobao's neck and the burns on his wrists.
Chu Qing thought of the dream in which the landlady pinched Xiaobao's neck and shook her: "You fool, you took advantage of me, drank from me, and defrauded me of so much money!"
Sighing, ever since the boss lady learned that she was pregnant, she had been thinking about selling the baby to make up for the loss. However, the neighbors knew that her child could not speak and was a fool. The buyer would know it after asking a little, so she kept
It can't be sold either.
So Xiaobao was beaten and scolded every day, and often without food. If Xiaobao really went back, he probably wouldn't live to grow up.
Chu Qing picked up Xiao Bao and said, "I'll just assume that you want to come with me. Let's live together." The corners of Xiao Bao's mouth moved. Chu Qing felt that Xiao Bao was smiling, but when she looked carefully, she saw that he was smiling.
Chapter completed!