Chapter 85: Zhou-ger
Zhou-ger was very vague about things when he was a child, he was only five years old when his brother left, too young.
He only vaguely remembered that he had a very strong elder brother who spoiled him, vaguely remembered that he would never go hungry on the way to escaping the war and that his eldest brother would always have a way to bring him something to eat, always taking him with him in case he was stolen and cooked by those hungry refugees with green eyes.
Then they fled to this town and a large number of refugees poured into the town to seek a living, and in the town, they could not find a livelihood, so his brother took him to Liushu Village to help the villagers work in exchange for food.
They found a kind villager who asked his brother to work, and the other party was also surnamed Zhou, and they shared a fate, and the grandfather of that family was very good, and every day when his brother went to work, he let the women of the family take care of him, and occasionally gave him candy to eat, which was so sweet, much more delicious than the roots they are on the way to escape.
But one day, Grandpa Zhou was carried back covered in blood, and his brother was gone, and the villagers told him that his brother had gone far away and that it would take a long time to return.
In fact, he knew that his brother was gone, just like his father and mother were gone, and he would never see his brother again, and he heard someone next to him whisper, “Zhou Daniu fell under the cliff, and even the bones could not be found.”
He cried, he didn’t want to never see his brother, he only had his brother with him.
But his brother… He really never came back, because his brother died, and he knew what death meant, even though he was very young at the time, but he just knew.
Later, Grandpa Zhou adopted him.
When his brother just left, Grandpa Zhou often held him and cried that he was sorry for him, his brother saved Grandpa Zhou, Grandpa Zhou felt uncomfortable so he was very good to him, better than to his own grandson, he had new clothes to wear, he had enough to eat, whoever bullied him Grandpa Zhou would call the shots for him.
But Grandpa Zhou was not in good health, and he left not long after.
After that, no one protected him anymore, Grandma Zhou didn’t like him, he made him move from a comfortable room to a firewood room to live in, ate little food, and did heavy work. He was so afraid, he didn’t have much strength to farm, but Grandma Zhou said that if he didn’t work, he couldn’t eat, and he would be thrown out.
He didn’t want to leave, he didn’t know where to go, the refugees who had fled the famine were still there, they couldn’t find work, they hid in the mountains, they hid in the woods, they caught children who were left alone to fill their stomachs, and his brother told him that they wanted to survive, and he couldn’t go out alone.
He worked hard and listened to Grandma Zhou, but Grandma Zhou just didn’t like him, saying that he was a black star, losing her money, and she would beat him with wicker when she was angry, it hurt, and he wanted to cry again, but he didn’t dare, crying would make Grandma Zhou hit him harder, he only dared to secretly run to the reeds by the river to hide, so that no one would see him cry.
“Hey, who are you? Why are you sitting on the reeds, come out quickly, this isn’t a place where you can rest and sleep at noon, how do you sit and sleep…”
Suddenly, he heard someone talking, and then his clothes were grabbed and he was picked up.
Raising his head, it was a big brother, very strong and fierce, and the big brother was angry, saying that this was a bad place and carried him in the air, and his feet could not touch the ground.
“I, I didn’t mean to, woo-hoo…..”
He didn’t mean to occupy someone else’s place, he just saw that the reeds were thickly pressed here, and it was very comfortable to sit on- he… he sat here for a while, but this big brother seemed to be angry, he was afraid, he cried again, he was a crybaby, and his brother used to say this about him, he remembered this.
“What are you crying about? I was just asking you, you… don’t cry, I’ll let you sit.”
That big brother looked fierce, but he was actually not bad, seeing him cry seemed to make him a little panicked, and quickly put him down while patting his head.
But he couldn’t stop crying, he had just been beaten by a wicker, and when this big brother carried him just now, he was injured, it hurt so much, he couldn’t hold back his tears.
“Why are you still crying? Don’t cry, if someone were to see this, they would think that I am bullying you, I’ll give you the fruit I just picked, you are not allowed to cry after eating it, the reed bed is comfortable, I’ll let you sit, hehe…..”
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The eldest brother saw that he liked it, said to him, ‘Sit and don’t go’ and ran out for a while, and then used got more fruits and asked him to eat. While eating, he talked to him, asking him where he was from, and why had he never seen him before? He looks so cute, why is he sitting here crying?
“… My name is Zhang Dazhu, and the one who planted two orange trees at the gate of the village is the Li family, what is your name? Where do you live?”
“My name is A-Xi, and I live at Grandpa Zhou’s house.” He secretly wrote down this big brother’s name and the orange tree’s location and answered.
“Ah, you are the A-Xi? I know you, my mother said that your eldest brother is very powerful, and he can fight a big black bear alone!”
As a teenager, Zhang Dazhu, like other boys in the village, worshipped heroes in particular.
They talked about a lot of things that day, in fact, most of them were the teenager Zhang Dazhu talking, he occasionally answered, but he was very happy, it was the first time after his brother left, someone said so much to him, and gave him some fruit.
“Brother Dazhu, I, can I still come here and sit here in the future?” He asked as he left.
“Yes, let me tell you, next time you come, I will pick the fruit for you, you wait, as I will send you back, the river is very slippery, you are small, and you can’t get up if you fall.”
The young Zhang Dazhu was as enthusiastic and stupid as Zhang Dazhu when he was an adult, and he squatted down and carried him on his back, and sent him home.
Later, he often went to the reeds by the river, and Brother Dazhu often went to find him, which became a secret place that belonged to the two of them, and every time he was unhappy, he would feel better when he went there because Brother Dazhu talked with him.
Along the way, he also met a friend named Amo, who would comfort him when he was unhappy and sad.
Amo has a father who loves him very much, and no one will beat him, but Amo is not much better than him, because Amo is not good-looking, and the children in the village like to bully him and laugh at him, but Amo is very strong, although he will also be unhappy, he will never cry, when he is unhappy, Amo will comfort him in turn and say, “Look at me, I can’t marry since I look so ugly, I haven’t cried yet, why do you have to cry, if you cry, you can’t have candy!”
Yes, a crying child should have sugar to eat, that is the father and mother’s duty, when he cries no one will coax him, except for Brother Dazhu and Amo.
He and Amo became good friends, they went to work in the fields together, went out to play together, ate delicious food together, and along the way, Amo’s younger brother was also brought along, because Uncle Lin was busy earning money, and Amo had to take care of his younger brother, and he had to carry his younger brother out when he worked.
After getting to know Amo and Brother Dazhu, he was no longer sad, even when Grandma Zhou beat him, he was not uncomfortable.
Time flickered, and they all grew up, although Amo is still not good-looking, Amo has a cheerful personality, being happy all day, Brother Dazhu still looks similar to when he was a child, a little fierce, but in fact, very humble, the body is taller and stronger, very strong, and he is a good hand at work.
Brother Dazhu is seven years older than him, he is fifteen this year, Brother Dazhu is already twenty-two, and Brother Dazhu’s mother has been urging Brother Dazhu to become a family, because the village guys will marry at most at seventeen, and the ger and girl will start picking people at the age of fourteen or fifteen.
But Brother Dazhu never wanted to talk about getting a wife, and every time his mother nagged, he would not speak, and then when his mother finished speaking, he would take things and go to the field to work as if there were no children, making Mother Zhang so anxious that she was angry to death, and the people in the village talked about it as a joke.
But when he heard these things, he was very happy in his heart, because…. He likes Brother Dazhu and he didn’t know when it started.
In fact, there are many girls and gers in the village who like Brother Dazhu, although Brother Dazhu is a little stupid and slow, he is honest and can work, the Zhang family is not particularly poor, marrying Brother Dazhu meant having a good life, and Brother Dazhu is also very good.
But he doesn’t know if Brother Dazhu will like him, he is much worse than other gers and girls in the village, he looks good, but there are many good-looking people in the village other than him, he can work, but there are more gers who can work in the village, and he is still the oil bottle of the Zhou family.
But Brother Dazhu didn’t care, on his sixteenth birthday, Brother Dazhu took him to their secret reed bush and sent him a jade pendant that was not expensive, but had a particularly beautiful pattern.
“A-Xi, I like you, you, can you be my wife…..”
Brother Dazhu said this to him, so nervous that his eyes fluttered everywhere, did not dare to look at him, his hands hung on his sides, and grabbed his clothes as he waited for him to answer. This look reminded him of the big dog who was watching the house at home, very stupid.
“So when are you coming to propose marriage?”
He lowered his head and whispered, a little shy, but happier, it turned out that Brother Dazhu also liked him, Brother Dazhu had been waiting for him to grow up, he was as happy as if he was flying.
In fact, soon he really flew up, and the big brother who heard his answer was stupid with joy, and picked him up in a circle with a smirk.
He also hugged Brother Dazhu’s neck and let Brother Dazhu hold him around, and when he was tired, Dazhu still hugged him with a silly smile…
But it is not easy for him to be with Brother Dazhu, Grandma Zhou does not agree, asking for the Zhang family for a dowry of ten taels of silver. Too much silver that the family is not willing to give it even if they can get it, he is just a ger, the Zhang family and several brothers and sisters are not married, so it is impossible to take that amount of silver to marry him.
Unable to negotiate the affair, Mrs. Zhang went home in a huff, and Grandma Zhou also beat him angrily, saying that he was shameless to seduce a man, and then she wanted to marry him off to those old bachelors because those people were willing to give him a dowry of 10 taels of silver to buy him.
He was sad, he didn’t want to marry those old bachelors, he wanted to be the wife of Brother Dazhu.
Brother Dazhu was very angry when he found out, he came to the Zhou family with a hoe, smashed all the tables and stools of the Zhou family, and almost beat Grandma Zhou. Grandma Zhou was so frightened that she sat on the ground for half a day and did not get up.
“Grandma Zhou, A-Xi is my future wife, you are not allowed to marry him to an old bachelor! If you dare to marry him to someone else, I will beat you to death!”
Brother Dazhu roared at Grandma Zhou with red eyes, and his fierce appearance frightened everyone who came to watch.
After that, Brother Dazhu went to work in the next town, doing the hardest, most tiring, and dangerous but the most paid work.
Because of this matter, Brother Dazhu’s father and mother were very angry, because the work that Brother Dazhu went to do was too dangerous, and something might happen if he didn’t pay attention carefully, but Brother Dazhu was stubborn. Brother Dazhu said that he was doing it to save money to marry him, he must marry him as a wife, and he didn’t listen to any persuasion…
Several times he saw Brother Dazhu returning to the village with bruises and swollen injuries, and Brother Dazhu was black and thin, but Brother Dazhu said that he was not bitter, as long as he was his wife, he would not be bitter.
“Brother Dazhu, A-Xi is only with you in this life.”
He knew Brother Dazhu’s temper, but he couldn’t persuade him, he thought about eloping with Brother Dazhu, but Brother Dazhu still has his family, unlike him who was alone. He also began to save money, secretly saving behind Grandma Zhou’s back.
Although these kinds of days are very hard, and he had to meet with Brother Dazhu secretly, as long as they think of being together soon, they don’t feel bitter in their hearts.
But he was afraid that Grandma Zhou would sell him in a hurry, and his household registration was now in the head of the Zhou family, and Grandma Zhou had the right to decide.
So he pulled Brother Dazhu to their favorite and most secret place, and on the reed mat where they used to sit, he took off his clothes, leaned on the other, and gave himself to his favorite man, except for Brother Dazhu, in this life, he never wanted anyone else.
It’s just that he didn’t expect Grandma Zhou to fall into the hands of money, even if he lost his purity, she still wanted to marry him to a rich old man as a concubine and make him give birth to a son to those rich old men who were half a step off into their deathbeds.
When he refused to agree, Grandma Zhou beat him with a thick stick, Amo protected him, and the villagers helped him, but Grandma Zhou still did not change her mind.
If he can’t be with Brother Dazhu, he would rather die.
Before passing out, he only had this thought.
But God favored him, and this time, not only did he not die, but he also found more relatives.
Not long after, a man named Wu Qingyuan suddenly appeared, with an extraordinary temperament and handsome appearance, came to Liushu Village to find his relatives, said that he was the relative he was looking for, he said that he was his cousin, he would take care of him, and he also took out the portrait of his brother.
On a small piece of paper, his brother was vividly drawn on it, suddenly overlapping with his vague memory, he had a family, a caring cousin.
At that moment, he was a little apprehensive and afraid, but his cousin was very good to him, really good to him, took him to buy a lot of things, all the clothes and food, and he was also very concerned about him in life.
The cousin even agreed with him marrying Brother Dazhu.
On the day he became married to Brother Dazhu, he heard that his cousin asked Brother Dazhu to take care of him in front of the whole village, and used two coal kilns and fields as his dowry, he cried, tears could not be held back, he finally knew why his cousin taught him to read and write on those days, why he taught him to settle accounts, his cousin was afraid that he would go to the Zhang family to be bullied…
After becoming a couple, his cousin also often came to see him, and when Brother Dazhu had an accident because of the coal kiln, his cousin was angry, and he ran with a large group of people to help them seek justice, and the imposing people who saw it said that it was scary.
When he was pregnant, his cousin’s business was busy, and he would take Amo back to the village every few days to see him, helping him, saying that it was to condition his body and give birth later.
“A-Xi, tell your cousin about anything, and your cousin will call the shots for you.”
His cousin would always tell him gently and seriously that he would stand up for him and that no one could bully him.
“Cousin, I know.”
He didn’t know what to say to express his happiness, and he could only answer like this every time, looking at his cousin with a warm heart, and in his vague memories of when he was a child, his brother also loved him so much as well.
During childbirth, he had a difficult birth, and the midwife said that between the child and him, she could only save one.
Brother Dazhu wants to protect him, he expected that, but he wants to give birth to the child, he is a ger, and without this opportunity, he may not be able to have children again in his life, this is the child of him and Brother Dazhu, he wants the child to survive.
He doesn’t want to die, he still has a lot of things to do, and he can’t bear to leave Brother Dazhu, to give up. But he has to make a choice, he can only choose one…
He begged his cousin, and begged his cousin to keep his child.
His cousin was very hesitant and looked at him as he had a hard time choosing, but finally agreed to him, because his cousin was soft-hearted towards him, and could not stand his pleas.
Hearing the child’s crying, he closed his eyes, happy and sad in his heart.
He wanted to say sorry to his cousin, he selfishly chose death to make his cousin sad, he wanted to tell Brother Dazhu that he would follow him in the next life, he wanted to say goodbye to Amo, but he had no strength.
It’s just that when he regained consciousness and opened his eyes again, he did not greet death, but saw Brother Dazhu, Amo, his cousin, and other people he was familiar with.
“A-Xi, you said that you want to be my wife for life, so you have to keep your word!”
Brother Dazhu was the first to hug him, crying like a stupid cow.
Then cousin and Amo smiled at him in relief, and the people around him also looked at him and smiled, Dazhu’s mother put the child beside him, and the white and tender son spat bubbles and giggled at him.
He suddenly felt that his nose was a little sore, and he wanted to cry again.
I am so happy so so happy😭😭😭 my A-xi and dazhu have gone through so much ahhhh it’s really a blessing WHY IS THIS NOVEL SO FREAKIN CUTEEE I JUST LOVE THIS AHH !!<333 They are all so precious I love ittt
Omfg my feels. ;_; ;_; ;_;
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!
I love this so much.
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Wow. It’s really nice to get an insight in Zhou-ger’s character. Also brave of him in ancient time to do the whacky before marriage. Never imagined that
I’m so happy that our dear A-Xi always had someone next to him even in the hardest time ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`) I’m just so happy for him, I’m going to my corner to cry
Thank You for the new chapter (｡’▽’｡)♡
Wow before I thought that with Amo’s daring character, he would be the one to give himself to our mc but he was conservative and reserved in that sense, who would say that Zhou-ger would do THAT outside of marriage, great my boy
I have myopia but I wonder why the world seems more blurry than before? (இдஇ; )
I don’t think it’s time to change my glasses yet