Rebirth begins with the waste wood returning home

Chapter 3 Checking in at Shi'ao Village

The sun is shining.

The seedlings in the field drooped their heads, and the big yellow man at the door stuck out his tongue and made a loud gasping sound.

As soon as Jiang Defu came back from the town, he saw a group of older girls, younger wives and men sitting around under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.

The wheat harvest has been finished, and the corn and peanut seedlings in the field are still sprouting. Apart from weeding, the field is not too busy.

After lunch, it was too hot to work in the fields, so many people gathered under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village to enjoy the shade.

The women held the soles of their shoes and chattered about the shortcomings of their parents;

The men smoked cigarettes and talked about the mountains, but their eyes looked in the direction of the women from time to time.

Silly Zhu, a bachelor in the village, was naked from the waist up, and a pair of tattered trousers on his lower body could not hide the genuine black wool that was exposed from time to time. He would also get in among the women from time to time, causing a group of women to laugh and scold him from time to time.

"Defu is back! I heard you went to town, what were you doing? You're back so soon!"

Someone saw Jiang Defu coming back and gossiped with a smile.

This Jiang Defu is Liu Bo who came through time.

A few days ago, he had been transferred from the battlefield to his hometown of Shi'ao Village.

Erzhuzi and Xiao Zhang left the next day after seeing him back, and they had to rush to the team.

Although he has been back for a while, Liu Bo, now Jiang Defu, still feels unreal.

He really crossed!

From the team we arrived at this barren mountain pass.

Shi'ao Village is really a poor mountain valley, with nothing but rocks and rubbish.

In his previous life, Jiang Defu liked to travel and had been to some remote mountainous areas. He had seen poverty in mountainous areas, but when he saw the mountain villages in the 40s, the level of poverty still shocked him.

The low mud houses, the farmers in tattered clothes, and the gray-faced farmers, and the seven or eight-year-old children still running naked on the street, all of this made Jiang Defu dumbfounded.

"Zhuzi, are all this...this mountain village so poor?"

When Er Zhuzhu just brought him back, Jiang Defu couldn't help but ask.

"Brother Jiang, it seems that you have no memory of your hometown. The brigade commander asked us to send you back, just because he wanted you to recover your memory quickly after seeing your hometown. You...

Aren’t all rural areas like this?The conditions here are pretty good, so how can you be considered poor?You have never seen poor people. It is normal in rural areas to not have enough to eat. Our hometown was too poor and had no food to eat, so I became a soldier! "

Erzhuzi sighed.

Why!Is this still a relatively wealthy rural area?

Faced with the chatting with those farmers who were laughing and watching the excitement, Jiang Defu nodded and did not answer the visitor's inquiry.

In rural areas, many people seem to be enthusiastic and eager to help when encountering problems, but snobbishness is the real daily life when it comes to climbing high and low.

On the day he came back, the door of his house was crowded with people watching the excitement.

At first, those people were very enthusiastic and even slightly flattering. Later, when they learned that he was "injured" and was sent back, their enthusiasm faded.

To them, it was nothing more than a joke that the boy from the Jiang family who was a soldier was sent back because his brain was injured and disabled.

"This kid was really stunned by the cannon. He's like a fool. You can't even speak!"

Some people saw Jiang Defu not talking to him and ridiculed dissatisfiedly.

"I guess it's because I used to be more lively (lively) when I was a child, but now I've been brought back. Fortunately, I gave some silver coins to the security guard, so our kid wasn't arrested!"

"I heard that he was rescued by the people's army. He changed his team and became a soldier. He will be promising. Who knows..."

"Haha, what kind of lively people are there in their family? The old Jiang couple couldn't get a fart out even after three kicks, and they burped early. They gave birth to four children, the eldest died early, the second one is mute, and the daughter is also a fool. , I thought this third child had some potential, but he is also a stick..." The people in the village always speak straightforwardly, and their mean and snobbish expressions are clearly displayed on their faces.

"Ah! Ah!"

Before Jiang Defu reached the door of his house, he saw a thin man in old gray clothes coming towards him, making "ahhhh" sounds in his mouth.

Behind him followed a thin woman with a whip and two long braids.

That man was Jiang Defu's second brother Jiang Decai. He looked at Jiang Defu with a worried look. The woman behind him was Zhang Guilan, who was originally Jiang Defu's wife.

"Ah! Ah!"

Jiang Decai shouted and gestured.

"I ate something in town, I'm not too hungry..."

Jiang Defu knew what Jiang Decai meant and told him to go home quickly for dinner. It was already past dinner time, and the second brother was worried that he hadn't eaten.

Although he is the second brother in name only, Jiang Defu truly feels the care and consideration this second brother has for his younger brother.

After he came back, there were rumors in the village that the boy from the Jiang family had become a waste after returning from the army. This second brother did not dislike it at all. Not only did he not let him do heavy work, he always let him rest and always gave him the best food in the house. .

"The pot... there are eggs in the pot for you (poached eggs are commonly cooked in soup and porridge in rural areas). Second brother has gone out several times to see if you are back. The rice is almost cold. Hurry... come home and eat!"

Zhang Guilan came up and whispered.

When Jiang Defu raised his head to look at her, her eyes were panicked and she quickly lowered her head.

Zhang Guilan and Jiang Defu had different images.

She didn't have the thick build of a rural woman as she imagined, and she had a thin figure. Although her skin was dark and she had some small freckles on her face, she had a vaguely delicate appearance.

She can't be called beautiful in appearance, but she's not too bad.

However, in this case, Jiang Defu would not be so hungry that he would not do anything inappropriate.

What's more, Zhang Guilan was pretty good to him, silently taking care of his daily life, but she was a little timid when facing him and didn't dare to look him in the eyes.

Jiang Defu didn't take it seriously. After arriving in the village, he realized that Zhang Guilan's origin was indeed surprising. She was actually the daughter-in-law bought for him by his second brother.

At that time, because they were going to serve in the army and they didn't know when they would come back, many families found wives for their boys in order to keep a heir at home. They just hoped that once their children left, they would have a heir.

Reproduction of children in rural areas is a big deal!
The Jiang family is poor, and his elder brother Jiang Decai is mute, so it is naturally difficult to find a partner.

The family's hopes were pinned on Jiang Defu. They sold the family's old cow and bought Zhang Guilan from other places.

Zhang Guilan's family is from the Yellow River. The family was hit by a disaster and could not survive. If their daughter was sent away, they would have a way to survive, and they would also be able to survive.

In special times, this kind of thing is not uncommon.

But when Zhang Guilan arrived at Jiang's house, before entering the bridal chamber, Jiang Defu followed the security chief.

Strictly speaking, Jiang Defu and Zhang Guilan are not a real couple.

It's just that in this era, especially in remote rural areas, there is no such thing as a marriage certificate or top-level registration. It is basically a convention. Everyone thinks that Zhang Guilan is Jiang Defu's wife.

However, due to the fact that his body has not recovered and he cannot remember the past events, Jiang Defu and Zhang Guilan have not consummated their marriage and are still living in their own rooms.

"Third brother! Second brother!"

Jiang Defu was about to follow Jiang Decai and Zhang Guilan home when a loud shout came!
Jiang Defu turned around and saw a woman wearing shabby clothes and messy hair running toward them with a package in hand.

This... who is this woman?

Why is it somewhat familiar?

(End of this chapter)