It was getting late, and the roofs of every household in the village were filled with smoke.+

The girl looked at the campus in front of her in surprise, the tall and bright teaching building, the wide and exquisite playground, and the neat and elegant environment. All this was beyond expectations and reasonable, because my cousin mentioned it in the letter.

But unfortunately, today the school holiday was on, and I asked everyone passing by, and they all said that Mr. Lin Wenqing was no longer here.

Outside the campus was a forest, and the cicadas in the woods were frightened by the cicadas. The girl endured the sound of cicadas and looked around anxiously for a long time.

Because she was carrying her luggage, she didn't dare to walk around. Until it was dark, an old man limping over came over. Seeing someone standing on the steps outside, she shouted from afar: "Who are you looking for?"

The girl hurriedly ran down the steps and said, "Is Mr. Lin Wenqing not teaching here?"

"Oh, looking for Mr. Lin?" The old man drank and rolled up his big tongue, "He is not here."

The girl was surprised and said, "Where has he been? He wrote to me to be in school. Also, where is my cousin's wife? She is also teaching here."

"No, I don't know, you go to the women's normal school to ask." The old man didn't dare to take in a young girl, and was so drunk that he walked into the school gate and closed the door.

This made the girl so hard that she came from all the way to her cousin and wrote a letter to tell him to come to find him. However, if the person is no longer here, what should I do if I have no relatives?

She stood blankly on the deserted stone steps outside, looking at the gloomy woods in front of her, and the sound of cicadas was still screaming endlessly. The village was gone. Even if the scenery in Jiangnan was beautiful and very rich, what did it have to do with her?

The girl, who had no choice, hit the door a few times, but there was no movement. I guess the old man had already fallen asleep.

Her heart felt like it was burning, her eyes were filled with tears. She stood alone outside the school, standing for a long time.

The bright moon rose, and the moonlight shone through the gaps of the tree like a gauze, illuminating the beautiful face of the lonely girl. She suddenly lay on the stone lion and cried softly.

When people are in pain, they are the easiest to recall the past. Lin Daojing cried while falling into memories.

In a remote mountain village in the Rehe area of ​​Peiping, there is a family named Li living. Due to war and other reasons, only the grandfather and granddaughter depend on each other for survival. The grandfather is old and sick on the kang all day long. Fortunately, the country was established in the Ming Dynasty, and the Li family was divided into fields. The granddaughter relied on harvesting firewood to support his grandfather and himself.

Granddaughter Paner is a beautiful, strong and capable girl. The young men in the village want to marry her, but Paner still doesn't get married even when she was twenty years old. The reason is that when she was just born, she was married by her parents. Later, her husband and family died.

She was a widow and also wanted to serve her grandfather, so she didn't want to get married, at least she wanted to wait a few more years. Her grandfather needed her granddaughter's care because she was old and sick. She didn't want her granddaughter to leave him.

In order to ask my grandfather to drink a bowl of hot egg noodles, in addition to farming, she carried an axe up the mountain to collect firewood whenever she had time; at night, she made needles and threads for people under the lamp, and everyone in the village praised this hardworking and simple good girl - this is really a good girl that young people think about in their dreams.

But such a good girl. In the winter when she was twenty-one, bad luck came: when Lin Juren, who lived in Peking City, went to the countryside to collect rent himself, Pan'er was suddenly discovered by him.

Juren Lin is in his early fifties. He has several wives and concubines at home, and his wife Xu also bought several red prostitutes for him. But the man's shame is infinite. Since he falls in love with Pan'er with some wild game, he will never let go.

Juren is like a local emperor in a small village. In short, he is in the house where the village chief is, and Pan'er becomes Lin Juren's concubine. She has cried, so she has also been seeking death, and bit Lin Juren's fingers, but all resistance is useless. Lin Juren is twisting his beard and smiling, but she still succeeds.

Two months later, Pan'er became pregnant, and Juren Lin took her back to her home in Peking. On the night she left the village, her grandfather jumped into the river with a trembling cane.

Pan'er arrived at the Lin family in Peking, and the smart girl who used to be turned into a fool. She didn't say a word all day long, except for eating and working, her eyes stared at the wall in a daze.

Because of her pregnancy, my wife, Xu, was not bad at first. Because Xu had given birth to several children, all of them died, so she hoped that she could pass on the Lin family to the family.

After Pan'er gave birth to a daughter, she became more energetic and placed all her hope and love on the child. Whenever the child smiled lightly, she would temporarily forget the deep pain, forget the shameful life, and give her the courage to live.

Often in the middle of the night, Juren Lin went to another concubine's room, Pan'er quietly got up, changed the child's diapers, fed breastfeeding, kissed her beautiful little round face, and murmured to herself while choking.

The child is one year old, and Yaya learns to speak, scratching her mother's cheek with her little fingers and pulling her hair. A happy smile appears on her face.

But one day, Xu wanted to take the child to her side to raise him. In order to prevent future troubles, his face changed drastically: "The child is from my Lin family, call me mother! You shameless bitch, get out of here now."

Pan'er was shocked, and then cried and tried hard to take back her child. However, it was impossible. Lin Juren was tired of playing with her and had already hid somewhere.

"Mom, mom." The child opened his little hand in Xu's hand and cried to ask for his mother.

Pan'er was pushed by several servants like wolves and tigers and drove to the carriage parked outside the door, and never knew where to end.

Paner's child, Lin Juren named her Lin Daojing. At first, the couple liked her very much, but later when she was three years old, Xu also raised a son, Xiao Daojing's bad luck came, she was beaten from time to time, slept with the mother at night, not allowed her to enter the room, etc.

One winter, for some reason, Xu changed his attitude and called Daojing into the house. He asked patiently. Seeing her answer while constantly moving around, Xu asked in surprise: "What's wrong?"

"Itchy, itchy." Dao Jing was only seven years old, so scared that she sniffed her nose and looked like she was about to cry.

Unexpectedly, Xu was very compassionate and took off his torn cotton jacket for Xiao Daojing. He saw that the small jacket covered in the cotton jacket was covered with lice, densely packed everywhere.

Xu quickly threw his clothes into the burning stove. With a crackling sound, countless lice and clothes were wiped out.

Xu turned the path to the cold purple-red face and looked at it carefully, then said to Lin Juren on the side: "I can see in the past two days that this girl looks very good. Let her study and practice piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. When she grows up, we will never lose money."

From then on, Xiao Daojing accompanied her younger brother to a private school to study. After learning, she could fumble and practice piano, play chess, write poetry, and paint. In the private school, she likes to study, is smart, and has a much higher talent than a boy. Because of her childhood experience, she seems very eccentric and doesn't say a word all day long. People who don't know think she is a mute.

Relying on his mother's spoiling, the younger brother often bullies her and beats her on purpose. Daojing doesn't cry and hides from him and lets him beat him. Sometimes the clay Buddha is still angry, so he beats his younger brother a few times, and then the younger brother runs to his mother to cry.

Xu didn't like to use boards or sticks when he hit her. She liked to twist and bite with her hands. Once, at night, Daojing was already asleep in the wing room. Her younger brother broke a vase of her mother's beloved, but he falsely blamed her. As a result, she suddenly woke up by a severe pain in her sleep. She immediately understood what was going on, so she gritted her teeth and endured her tightly.

Xu roared while pinching, "I'm a bitch! I'm getting more and more lawless, I'll compensate me for my enamel vase."

His legs were swollen, and his arms were bitten so hard that they could see red blood marks. However, Daojing never cried or beg for mercy. He endured unfair treatment like a wood. He would cry in the middle of the night, why did his mother be so generous to the other, and why did his father remain indifferent?

In such a family, she survived like a puppy. There was only one elderly mother Wang who cared about her and felt sorry for her. She often took care of her secretly, but she could not be known to others.

Daojing treated Wang Ma as her mother. She was hungry and cold on her body. She always went to look for Wang Ma to act coquettishly, and her tears only shed in front of Wang Ma.

Later, when a daughter of the Lin family first grew up, Lin Daojing's talent was praised by several gentlemen, and she was recognized as a rare talented woman. She had grown into a handsome girl with long figure, bright eyes and white teeth. Xu's attitude towards her suddenly improved significantly.

Her face was oval and fair, crystal clear and transparent like transparent jade, her eyebrows were very long and dark, and she penetrated her temples beautifully, and the most beautiful one was her melancholy and charming eyes.

Lin Daojing adhered to her childhood character, not likes to talk, not laugh, not to be close to others, and not to care about others. She doesn't care about these Xu family. She only cares about the changes in the girl's appearance and excellent talent and temperament, which are necessary conditions for marrying a noble person.

When he was fourteen years old, Lin Daojing was admitted to the Noble Girls' School in the western suburbs of Dalian through his cousin Lin Wenqing who was studying in Liaodong. This was the girls' school that Xu Hao initially piloted, and later it was the Jinling Women's Normal School.

Because the principal is Zhu Qiaoqiao, the famous Liaodong princess in the north, there are many royal noble girls among the students, who are keen on competing with the powerful and powerful parents. When she left home for the first time to go to school, she happily sent Daojing to the outside of the gate.

Lin Juren was wearing a long silk robe, touching his beard and standing on the jade steps outside his mouth, smiling and admiring at his daughter who was about to set off: "Haha! Going to school is equivalent to becoming a scholar."

Juren Lin did not pass the Jinshi in his entire life, which was a pain for him throughout his life. During the Jingnan Campaign, he was so scared that he took his whole family to the northwest to take refuge, and thus missed the best opportunity and failed to get a single official position.
Chapter completed!