After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 1

It was only dawn, and before the people beside him woke up, Liu Yu got up.

It was August, and it was too hot to get up early. After the willow fish washed its face with the water just brought up from the well, it felt cool.

The man was going to the county town to do the work of cleaning up the river silt, so he had to eat something dry. After the willow fish washed rice and put it in the pot, let it simmer, and then began to knead the noodles.

Yesterday, when he just took over the work from his mother-in-law Cong Chunhua, he baked the pancakes in a thin layer, and the man boasted that it was delicious, but he could see that the man was in a hurry, and such thin pancakes would be ready in a short time. It couldn't fill his stomach at all. So today it has to be baked thicker, so that the man will be full in a short time.

When waking up, Liu Yu went to touch the eggs in the hen pen in the backyard. It was so hot that five hens laid two eggs. Cleaning up the river is hard work, and Li Qingshan is still young, so he can't lose money on food at the moment, so naturally he has to eat closely. The willow fish thought about frying it for a while, and made burritos for Li Qingshan to eat.

Liu Yu washed his hands and hurriedly rolled pancakes. Although he had never baked pancakes when they ate rice when he was in Nanjiang Mansion, it was not difficult. He had learned it just by watching Cong Chunhua make it a few times. He worked quickly, and after a while, there was a stack of steaming pancakes on the plate on the stove, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, delicious.

Liu Yu uncovered the porridge pot and stirred it with a spoon. The corn was boiled until it was rotten, but the soup was not thick enough. There was still some time, and Liu Yu filled another handful of firewood into the stove, sat quietly by the stove and watched, watching the swaying fire in the stove, he was taken aback, and couldn't help but think of the time when he first married into Li's family. .

He was originally from Nanjiang Mansion.

In May, there was a flood in Nanjiang Mansion. Not only did the crops in the field disappear for a season, but the house where he and his grandmother lived was washed away.

Ben had hoped for relief from the imperial court, but the heavy rain continued, and the water accumulated deeper and deeper day by day, so he and his grandma fled northward all the way.

When he came to Qingzhou Mansion, he originally wanted to go to his grandmother's old friend when he was young, but he was old and his old friend had already moved away. He and his grandmother made many inquiries but failed, so they moved to Yunshui County.

The county magistrate of Yunshui County is benevolent and willing to take in these disaster victims. The whole family with a man in the family can immediately settle down and be allocated to the village. The men will be divided into ten mu of land, and the women and younger brothers will be divided into five mu, and they will cultivate it by themselves. But a young man with a single household like him can only stay if he marries a local man.

Liu Yu was at the end of his rope at that time, so he had no choice but to nod in response.

He looks good, and he doesn't need a dowry, and he can get five acres of land, so he can marry without worry, but the bad thing is that he insists on taking old lady Guan to the husband's house.

Mrs. Guan is fifty-five this year, and Yunshui County gave her all the money.

In Qingzhou Prefecture, when the weather is good all year round, an acre of land can only produce two stones of grain. The migrant households are allotted wasteland. If the grains of the two seasons add up to one stone, it will go to the sky. How can these five acres of land be enough to feed two people? of.

Moreover, many members of the family have to pay poll tax. Mrs. Guan is old and escaped all the way here. She doesn't look very healthy. She will have to see a doctor and take medicine in the future.

Liu Yu stayed in Anji Yuan for a month before two families came to see each other. They are all from Taoyuan Village, one family is named Chen, and the other is the Li family.

Liu Yu compared the two, and chose the Li family with a small population and simple relationships.

Li's father died early, and Li Qingshan and his mother depended on each other for life. Perhaps because of the sympathy for each other, the Li family can understand his suffering better. He didn't wait for three days to return home, on the second day of the wedding, Li Qingshan borrowed a bullock cart and went to Anjiyuan to pick up his grandma.

Afterwards, he treated grandma like a grandson, not without respect.

Seeing grandma's spirit getting better day by day, Liu Yu felt grateful in her heart and gradually felt at ease.

When Li Qingshan got up early in the morning, he saw his husband in a daze.

He failed to learn how to butcher pigs. The family has little land and no stable income. Marrying a man will make people suffer with him. He didn't want to get married.

But his mother couldn't say anything this time, and even threatened her with death, so he had no choice but to comply.

Before he got married, he had never seen Liu Yu, and secretly speculated about what Liu Yu looked like and whether he could get along well.

But after ten days of marriage, Liu Yu made him feel right both in terms of temperament and appearance, and made him feel that his imaginary husband should be like this. It's just that Fulang always talked very little, and my mother and grandma sometimes chatted and laughed, and didn't say much to him, as if there was always a layer of separation.

Li Qingshan was at a loss when he thought of this, and walked slowly towards the yard.

Liu Yu was awakened by his footsteps, and came back to his senses, "Are you up? The porridge is ready, I'll serve it and let it cool, and the scrambled eggs are quick, come and eat after you wash up." "Yeah." Li Qingshan responded

softly , went to the well shed, fetched several buckets of water from the well, and first filled the kitchen and the earthen jar in front of the well, so that it would be convenient for my mother and husband.

Liu Yu filled some of the porridge and let it cool in the soup pot, while the others were still stuffy in the pot, waiting for grandma and mother to get up to eat later.

The other pot that just made pancakes was still warm, so I added a handful of firewood to heat up the pot again, and the willow fish quickly fried a plate of oily eggs.

He originally wanted to fry the eggs with the shepherd's purse dug out yesterday, but the weather was hot, and it would be greasy to eat such oil early in the morning. The willow fish would be better served with some raw shepherd's purse.

This early, only Li Qingshan ate alone, and the food was placed in the kitchen.

After Li Qingshan washed up, he came over to eat, Liu Yu came out of the kitchen to help him tidy up the cloth bags.

Water bags and sweat towels are a must. It's not easy to bring your own dry food in hot weather, and you need to prepare a few pennies for lunch. Li Qingshan's purse was a bit damaged, Liu Yu quickly repaired it for him.

After tidying up, Li Qingshan had finished his meal and was knocking on the low wooden stool sitting in the kitchen, "The legs of this stool are a bit wobbly, don't sit on it today, I will fix it when I come back tonight." Liu Yu nodded and helped Li

Qingshan The cloth bag is tied around the waist.

Being so cared by Fu Lang, Li Qingshan laughed unconsciously, "Today is the last day of work, do you have anything to buy?"

He works in the county town, and the village is a little far away from the county town. It's rare to take a trip for important things. Liu Yu is really short of embroidery thread recently, but he didn't want to trouble Li Qingshan, so he said: "No."

Li Qingshan was slightly disappointed when he heard that, but he made up his mind, when he got his wages today, he would definitely buy two beautiful flower bowls back .

The family was rough, and he and his mother had big appetites, so they used rough sea bowls that could hold a catty of porridge at a time. He had already discovered that Fulang's appetite was less than half a bowl, and every time he grilled rice, his head almost fell into the bowl, and it was difficult to hold it with his hands.

Liu Yu tidied up the cloth bags, and helped Li Qingshan arrange his clothes.

The smile on Li Qingshan's face got bigger and bigger, he looked a little silly, "Then...then I'm leaving?"

Liu Yu nodded, and Li Qingshan left home reluctantly.

Afterwards, the willow fish was boiled in hot water to blanch the shepherd's purse, and after it was cold, he discovered that there were more than half of the eggs left in the plate under the dining table cover.

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After breakfast, Li Lerong called Liu Yu to wash clothes by the river on time.

He is Li Qingshan's cousin, Li Qingshan's grandfather has two sons, Li Qingshan's father is the second, and he has only one son. Li Qingshan's uncle's family has two sons, a daughter and a younger brother.

The younger brother is Li Lerong, the youngest in the family, he is fifteen years old this year, and he is the only one who hasn't married yet. Because he is well-loved at home, he has a very lively temper, "Brother Liuyu, let's go dig some shepherd's purse after washing the clothes. Yesterday, according to what you said, I asked my mother to mix it with sesame oil, vinegar and garlic. It's delicious."

Before the dishes and chopsticks used for breakfast could be cleaned up, Liu Yu wanted to go after cleaning up, but Cong Chunhua rolled up his sleeves and snatched the work from him, smiling very cheerfully, "Go quickly Well, I'll take care of the household chores."

Having been together for ten days, Liu Yu already knew that his mother-in-law is very generous, straightforward and simple. Basin, took the laundry stick and went to the river with Li Lerong.

Because Li Qingshan's father was originally a hunter, the Li family had a lot of money in the early years, there is a well in the yard, but the well water is precious, and they are reluctant to use it for washing clothes on weekdays.

Li Lerong was chattering all the way, and Liu Yu didn't talk much, so he didn't mind it, and just talked about himself.

After going down the river slope, it is the place where the villagers wash their clothes. There are big stones here for hammering clothes. At this moment, there was no one there, Li Lerong said happily: "The time we chose is really good, there are no people."

If after a while, the aunts and aunts come together, the operas here are even better than those sung in the theater Be wonderful.

"I hate talking to those people the most. I always like to talk and squeeze people. I make several turns in a sentence, but you still can't get angry. You have to deal with it well."

He's okay, he's still an unmarried little brother, he doesn't have much to say, even if someone says it, he's just pretending to be stupid and fooling around. But Brother Liu Yu is a new husband, and he was married from another place, so he must be the hot topic of discussion among these aunts and aunts recently.

His elder brother Qing Shan had specifically explained that elder brother Liu Yu had just married and was unfamiliar, so he took care of everything, so how could he not have thought of this!

It's just that today, unfortunately, when they were about to finish washing, the Chen family came over with her eldest daughter-in-law.

"Hey, Brother Rong, where are you doing laundry?"

The Chen family was the one who had seen Liu Yu before, and because Liu Yu rejected her, she turned around and agreed to Li's family. She has been around a lot these days Talking bad things about the Li family and Liu Yu behind her back, Li Lerong didn't care about her very much.

The Chen family's surname is He, she approached, and said to Liu Yu: "This is Mr. Qingshan, right?"

Liu Yu replied, and then washed the clothes.

He and her eldest daughter-in-law found a place to sit down, and began to sing about hermaphrodites, "This person is cheap sometimes." "It's a good life

, but I must suffer with others."

The insinuation is Liu Yu, her family was not as good as Li's family in the early years, but since Li Qingshan's father was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, Li Qingshan's family has been in decline year after year, and has become a well-known shabby household in the village.

On the other hand, her family is thriving and prosperous, and this year even bought a calf.

If it wasn't for her disappointing young son who was idle all day long, and she wanted to find a beautiful wife to take care of him and tie his son's heart, how could she have taken a liking to Liu Yu, who came from a foreign country and brought an old burden little brother.

But Liu Yu accepted Li's family and rejected her, how could she not be angry!

When Li Le Rong heard this, she was so angry that she slammed the mallet and wanted to argue with her, but was stopped by Liu Yu, "Le Rong, I've finished washing, let's go back." Li Le Rong was very angry and didn't want to

leave , Liu Yusheng dragged him away.

After walking more than ten meters away, Li Lerong was still furious, "Only his pockmarked, idle son still wants to compare with my brother Qingshan? Don't take a pee to see what her son looks like!"

He has already made up his mind My idea, when his elder brother Qingshan comes back, he must tell him to let him beat up the He family's youngest son to vent his anger on elder brother Liuyu.

Li Lerong is still a little brother who hasn't made a kiss yet, and this kind of vulgar words are still criticizing men. If people listen to them, they will be criticized, Liu Yu said: "Say this in front of me, and don't say it when you go out. "

"I know, I know." Li Lerong rubbed Liu Yu closer flatteringly, "My mother would kill me if she heard about it, so I won't tell.

" They are all soft-spoken, not as fierce as mothers and sister-in-laws, who tend to pinch people's ears at every turn.

Li Lerong continued: "Brother Liuyu, don't listen to her nonsense, my brother Qingshan is actually capable. The second uncle left early, brother Qingshan can make money when he is 12 or 13, but the second aunt is afraid that he will hurt his body At that time, I suppressed him and didn't let him do it."

"But Brother Qingshan still saved more than a dozen taels of silver last year, and he paid the money to go to the butcher Zhang's house in Heshan County to learn how to butcher pigs."

Li Lerong got angry when he thought of this, "But in March, Jia Enke, Zhang Butcher's son of a scholar, won the exam, and he quit butchering pigs. This black-hearted guy didn't teach much skills, and he only refunded half of the money."

Naturally, the refunded money was later used to get married. Liu Yu had heard Cong Chunhua mention a few words before, but she didn't know the detailed reason. Li Qingshan didn't say much to him, he only told him on the wedding night that he would have a better life in the future.

"Outsiders laugh at my brother Qingshan being poor, but in fact his family may not be as rich as my brother Qingshan's. My brother Qingshan is called making a fortune with a muffled voice!" Li Lerong glanced at the handsome Liu Yu and sighed: "Brother Liuyu, You and Brother Qingshan are the best match! You both look good-looking, and my little nephew will definitely be good-looking in the future!"

Liu Yu smiled, and suddenly said: "I forgot to take the saponins."

"I'll go back with you." Li Lerong said hurriedly.

Although saponins are not worth much, he doesn't want He's to take advantage of them.

Liu Yu said: "No need, take the wooden basin to sink. I put the clothes here, you look at them, I'll go back and get them."

Li Lerong thought about it, and waited obediently.

Liu Yu slowly walked to the river slope where she had just washed her clothes, and the woman at the bottom of the river slope was still beating her clothes and cursing. Liuyu stood there coldly for a while, then mercilessly pushed the big rock on the river slope down.

Li Lerong heard He's screams from a long distance away, but unfortunately he couldn't see what was going on in front of him with his head on tiptoe. When Liu Yu came over, he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?" Liu Yu picked up the laundry on the

floor Basin, said lightly: "It seems to have planted in the river, don't care about our business, let's go."