Chapter 35: Days at Aunt Zhang's House
Aunt Zhang's family lives in the depths of an alley in the north of the city, with a small courtyard, although the courtyard gate is deep, it is very convenient to move. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
When Liu Shuangli and Qin Siyang were taken to Aunt Zhang's house, it was getting late, and Aunt Zhang's daughter-in-law was busy with dinner in the kitchen in the backyard.
Looking at the small courtyard is a common small courtyard house in the north, the style is ordinary, and it is also a little old, but it is built very well and strongly.
Aunt Zhang's daughter-in-law, Wang, is a woman with a gentle temperament and few words, her figure is not as tall as that of a northern woman, she is a little thin, and her appearance is quite delicate.
For the two new guests in the family, Wang just said hello and went back to the kitchen to continue her work.
Aunt Zhang cleaned up a wing room in the backyard for the two children to live in.
Although it is a small courtyard house of ordinary people, Aunt Zhang's house is much larger than that of Mr. Chen's house in Peizhou.
Mr. Chen's house in Peizhou is just a small courtyard surrounded by courtyard walls and houses, and there is no difference between the front yard and the back yard. However, Aunt Zhang's house is like a large family's house, with a complete shadow wall, front yard, front hall, hanging flower door, and then to the backyard, the main house, and the left and right wings, all of which are all complete.
With such a formal courtyard layout, but only Aunt Zhang, her daughter-in-law and grandson lived, Liu Shuangli and Qin Siyang couldn't help but be taken aback when they first stepped in. This seemingly ordinary Aunt Zhang lives at home and is really generous.
In the following days, Liu Shuangli and Qin Siyang, who lived in Aunt Zhang's house, got up early, and after breakfast, they followed Aunt Zhang to the market to sell baked cakes, and only Wang and her children were still left at home. Before noon, Wang would go to the market to bring food to his mother-in-law, and now he would bring two more children.
Since the two children moved into Aunt Zhang's house, Aunt Zhang has become more enthusiastic about them, looking like she treats them as her own family. Only the daughter-in-law Wang, no matter when, her expression towards the two children is indifferent, and she can't tell whether they are welcome or unwelcome to live here.
The days passed like this, and seeing that March was about to pass, Aunt Zhang's family still only had women and children, and no men were coming.
Early this morning, as soon as everyone finished breakfast, Aunt Zhang took the two children who had borrowed it and went to the backyard to prepare the utensils for the cake stall.
It was still early, and there were not many pedestrians walking on the road outside. At this time, there was a sudden sound of a rapid knock on the door at the door of Aunt Zhang's house, and Wang, who was cleaning the stables in the front yard, hurriedly put down the broom and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, a figure flashed in.
"Is Brother Jiu here?" As soon as the person who flashed in stood still, he didn't care about wiping the sweat on his face, so he asked Wang anxiously.
This is a young man who looks only in his early twenties, dressed in the uniform of the defenders of Xuanhua City, and there is nothing special on the surface.
"He hasn't come back yet. Wang casually closed the door and replied.
"Why haven't you come back yet? The young man grunted with a look of disappointment.
"Is there anything wrong with the twelfth brother looking for the ninth brother?" Wang asked the young man.
The young man stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat, did not answer Wang's question, and continued to ask with an anxious face: "Does my sister-in-law know when Brother Jiu will come back?"
Wang shook his head: "I don't know." โ
Hearing the movement in the front yard, Aunt Zhang put down the work in her hand and walked to the front yard, and when she saw the young man from a distance, she smiled and said, "It's Ah Yuan, I came to your aunt so early in the morning, have you eaten?"
"Aunt Zhang's morning!" the young man smiled when he saw Aunt Zhang, "Auntie don't be busy, I've already eaten." โ
"Well, if you really eat it, you still look down on your aunt's food, but don't lie to your aunt. โ
"How dare A-Yuan lie to my aunt, I've really eaten it. The young man patted his chest and promised, "Look, my belly is full." โ
"You kid!" Aunt Zhang smiled, "Okay, let's talk, I came to my aunt early in the morning, is there anything wrong?"
"Thisโ" The young man immediately looked anxious, "I'm here to find Brother Jiu." โ
"What's wrong?" Aunt Zhang's expression also became slightly solemn, "Lao Jiu, he went to the south to sell cloth, and he couldn't come back for a while." โ
"That's rightโ" the young man took a deep breath, "If Brother Nine doesn't come back in three days, my aunt had better tell him not to rush back." โ
"Ah, what's going on?"
"Thisโ"
Hearing this, Aunt Zhang and Wang exclaimed at the same time, and both looked at the young man's gaze with deep condensation.
Aunt Zhang couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that something happened?"
The young man nodded cautiously.
"Finally ......" Aunt Zhang turned around and sighed heavily as she looked into the distance.
The young man moved his mouth and wanted to say something more, but at this moment, there was a sound of broken footsteps from the hall, and Aunt Zhang and Wang knew that they were coming here through the two children who lived at home.
The two women spoke briefly to the young man, and said goodbye just as the thin bodies of the two children appeared in the front yard.
Farewell to the visitor, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are very worried, they have long known that this day will come sooner or later, idealistic plan, only hope that everything can go smoothly as hoped, and their relatives and friends will not have accidents.
However, what the two women didn't know was that on their side, the cloth for the uprising was not detailed at all, and in such a situation, they should not be busy with the incident, it was too risky, and it could be said that there was no chance of success at all!
Liu Shuangxuan was always a little strange, since that morning, the man wearing the city defense uniform came to visit Aunt Zhang's house, she felt that Aunt Zhang's family was weird.
In fact, Aunt Zhang's family lives in a very remote place in the north and west corner of Xuanhua City, and they rarely have contact with their neighbors on weekdays. The sudden arrival of someone early that morning was already strange, Liu Shuangli also curiously asked Aunt Zhang if there was anything wrong that day, but Aunt Zhang obviously avoided her question.
This is the family affair of Aunt Zhang's family, and outsiders don't want to ask much. Early that morning, after seeing off the visitors, Aunt Zhang did not go to the market to set up a stall to sell baked cakes for the first time. Instead, I went to buy a lot of incense, and then in the front yard and backyard, inside and outside the house, I lit incense, and this incense burned for a day and smoked the entire Zhang family for a day. By the next day, although Aunt Zhang had extinguished most of the incense, the bunch that could be used in front of the god in the backyard had not been burned for several days. Liu Shuangli looked really curious, and intuitively felt that Aunt Zhang had bought the incense of the entire Xuanhua City in the past few days.
Since the strange visit that morning, although Aunt Zhang went to sell baked cakes after breakfast as usual the next day, Liu Shuangli still found that Aunt Zhang's mind was scattered, she no longer used her heart to sell fried cakes, and the stall was closed earlier day by day, and later there was no need for the Wang family to send lunch, because Aunt Zhang closed the stall home before noon.
Aunt Zhang stopped setting up stalls early, and Liu Shuangli and Qin Siyang also fell into a leisurely position, and they had nothing to do for most of the day.
On the tenth day of the strange visit, the days flowed into April.