Outside the window, the noise was particularly noisy, the chickens and dogs were crowing, and the voices of people were boiling.

Seeing Yuexiang lying on the bed/, I only felt groggy, and the whole person was like a ball of cotton soaked in water, soft and heavy, and it was difficult to turn over.

I finally opened my eyes, and when I saw it, it was already bright outside.

Seeing Yuexiang's spirit, he immediately woke up, and as soon as he sat up, he heard Liu Fang's voice in the hall.

"It's only been a few days since I carried this load of water, and I can't stand it? Hmph, it's always better to say than to do!"

"Mom, Yuexiang is sick. Jiang Wen's tone was full of helplessness and anxiety.

"Sick again? Lying on the bed at both ends for the past three days, I think she is lazy!"

Jiang Wen ignored it, and Liu Fang continued: "In the past, when your father just died, you were less than two years old, whether it was a windy and rainy day, or I stayed up late to do the soles of my shoes so that I couldn't straighten up, and I had to carry you to fetch water before dawn! At that time, it was not as convenient as it is now, I had to climb half a mountain! What can I do? If I don't fight, there is no water to drink, and we are both thirsty." ”

Jiang Wen flicked his chopsticks and said impatiently: "Oh, I don't care what you want to say." ”

After speaking, for fear of hearing one more sentence, he slammed the door and ran out as if he had escaped.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he shouted and asked, "Strange, who picked up two large buckets of water and put them at the door of our house?"

Liu Fang also put down the bowl when he heard it, went to the courtyard, stretched out his head and poked a look, and said, "Who else can there be, it must be that Wang Dahua!"

"Which Wang Dahua?" Jiang Wen frowned.

"The daughter-in-law of Tan Ronghu's family who sells pork in the alley next door!"

"Selling pork?" Jiang Wen's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he saw that there seemed to be a circle of oil stars on the surface of the water in the bucket, dirty and greasy, "Mom, you usually take care of some moon incense, don't ask her to get involved with these messy people!"

"Hmph, what did you say!" Liu Fang smiled coldly, "She saw Yuexiang with long legs and eyes, where to go, who to see, can I still manage it?"

"Forget it!" Jiang Wen was annoyed as soon as he told Liu Fang about seeing Yuexiang, "I'll tell her myself." ”

After saying that, he stepped out of the door with two feet and walked away without looking back.

Seeing that Yuexiang hurriedly turned over and got up, as soon as she arrived in the yard, she saw Liu Fang standing at the door and was about to lift the two buckets of water inside.

"Mom, I'll come!" Seeing Yuexiang hurriedly ran over.

Liu Fang glanced at Yuexiang, and said in a strange way: "Aren't you sick?" ”

"Nothing. Seeing Yuexiang smiled, "Do more things, it's good to be born sweaty!"

"Okay, then you sweat. Liu Fang put the bucket down.

The bucket was full of water, and seeing that Yuexiang had just picked up the bucket, her knees were weak, and the whole person sat back. She was afraid of spilling the water, so she hurriedly hugged it with both hands, and the water in the bucket poured out and drenched her.

Even if she hugged it in time, it was still half a bucket missing.

"Ouch hey. Liu Fang hurriedly helped hold the bucket, let out a heavy breath in his nose, and pulled Jianyuexiang up again, "If you can't do it, don't be strong, you wasted so much of my water!"

Seeing that Yuexiang didn't have time to speak, Liu Fang had already picked up a bucket of water in one hand and left.

The top only got a corner wet, but the fart/thigh sat on the ground, and the pants were almost soaked. Seeing Yuexiang return to the back room, closed the door tightly, took off her shirt and pants together, took out the small white handkerchief hanging behind the door and wiped her body, the bruises on her shoulders in the past few days became purple, and the broken skin also formed scabs, she re-smeared some ointment, changed into clean clothes, took the dirty clothes and walked out of the room, and asked Liu Fang: "Mom, do you have anything to wash, I rubbed it together?"

"Forget it!" Liu Fang had just finished pouring water into the tank and held two wet buckets, "Your golden wind will blow down, I don't dare to ask you to wash your clothes." ”

As he spoke, he threw the two buckets in his hand at the feet of Yuexiang: "Take this bucket and return it, and leave your clothes here." ”

Seeing Yuexiang stunned for a moment, this was the first time that Liu Fang had shown her kindness to her since she had been in Qingchuan for so many days.

Although this little kindness is mixed with sharp words.

Seeing Yuexiang put the dirty clothes on the table, picked up a wooden barrel in one hand and just walked to the door, when she heard behind her, Liu Fang scolded again: "Such a dirty thing is put on the table, it really means that you are particular and you don't know how to be particular!"

"My daughter-in-law is not a daughter-in-law, my mother is not my mother, I really don't know what evil I did in my last life, and I have such a bad thing!"

Seeing that Yuexiang didn't hear it, she went out of the house to the alley next door.

Tan Ronghu went into the city to sell pork before dawn every day, and there were only Wang Dahua and their two sons at home.

Seeing that Yuexiang was coming, Wang Dahua was very happy, and hurriedly beckoned people to sit at home.

"No, thank you for helping me fetch water, I have a lot of things to do when I go back, so I won't sit down. ”

"Oh, you're so polite, I'm just in passing. Wang Dahua was embarrassed, "I can't wait for you this morning, I remember that you had a fever yesterday, and I knew that you must not be able to get out of bed, so I fetched water for you, otherwise there will definitely be not enough water this day." ”

"By the way, have you burned it?" Wang Dahua wiped her hands on her clothes and went to see Yuexiang's forehead, "Ouch, it's still a little hot." ”

"It's okay, I'm walking hot. Seeing Yuexiang whispering, while talking, I saw that behind Wang Dahua, two boys were sitting in the courtyard with a small stool, holding wooden sticks in their hands, writing and drawing according to an open booklet in front of them.

Wang Dahua saw Yuexiang's eyes looking back, then turned her head, and immediately laughed again: "Oh, these two rotten egg boys are learning to write!"

The two children, one was seven or eight years old, and the other was four or five years old, and they were neatly dressed, but they didn't know what was wrong with their small faces.

"Didn't you go to school?" "The older child is not too young, and the school system reform is being carried out recently, and children between the ages of six and seven will enter primary schools to make primary education compulsory.

"Nope. Wang Dahua smiled, "We don't have that spare money, and we don't have that kung fu, how can the two boys help to do some work at home, and in their free time, they can learn to read according to the literacy booklet, and it would be good to be able to recognize a few." ”

"Not only them, but also me. Wang Dahua smiled again, this time a little embarrassed.

Seeing Yuexiang walking into the courtyard, the two children saw that someone came in, and they wrote more energetically.

The booklet is printed with the popular song "Husband and Wife Literacy": "In the winter of Hegelon, the stars come out." Write on the blackboard, put it and put it brightly. What kind of words, put light? Study, learn the two words I recognize clearly......"

Seeing Yuexiang squatting down/pointing to the words on the booklet, she asked the two children: "You are burying your heads and writing vigorously, do you know how to pronounce these words and what they mean?"

"Why don't you know?" replied the eldest child, "which means that there are many stars in the dark sky...... Stars ......"

"The stars shine. The younger one smiled and showed two missing teeth.

"Then what do you pronounce this word?" saw Yuexiang casually pointing to the word "star".

The two children, you look at me, I look at you, and they all look at Wang Dahua.

Wang Dahua touched his ears: "I...... I don't know about this, I just found someone to teach me two days ago, and today I forgot all about it. ”

Seeing Yuexiang, she pursed her lips and smiled: "This word reads stars, one day above, and one life below, which is a small star born from the sun." ”

After speaking, he laughed even more: "You can't remember what I said now, so it's better for me to teach you how to learn words when I have time." ”

"That's great!" Wang Dahua was so happy that she almost burst into tears, "Yuexiang, I don't know how to thank you!"

"You have helped me so much, and you have taught me how to make turnips in different ways, I can't do anything to cook with water, I can only recognize a few words, you help me a lot more than I help you. Seeing Yuexiang remembered the radish, "By the way, my spicy shredded radish is almost ready, I'll bring some to you to taste later." ”

……

After seeing Yuexiang go home, her clothes had been washed and dried, but Liu Fang didn't know where she went.

Jiang Wen had to go home for dinner at night, and when he saw Yuexiang, he had to cook in advance, and the sanitation inside and outside the courtyard had to be cleaned, so he was busy until the evening unconsciously.

When he remembered to send shredded radish to Wang Dahua, he saw that Jiang Wen was about to come back.

But I agreed to send it today, seeing that Yuexiang didn't want to lose her trust, she picked up some of the made shredded radish and put it in a small bowl, and took another bowl and covered it carefully, and just went out, I met Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen watched Jianyuexiang walk out with the bowl, and only felt strange: "What are you doing here?"

Seeing Yuexiang smiled sweetly at him: "I'll go and send Wang Dahua some freshly made shredded radish, you go back first, the food has been prepared and put in the pot to cover, and you can eat it when you bring it out, you don't have to wait for me." ”

"Seeing Yuexiang, you are really getting more and more depraved now!" Jiang Wen was furious for a moment, slapped his hand, and smashed a bowl full of shredded radishes to the ground.

The two earthen bowls shattered to the ground, and the red, red, yellow and yellow radish shreds were like silt.

Seeing that Yuexiang was a little stunned, it took a long time to blink her eyes and take a sharp breath.

"Shredded radish?" Jiang Wen seemed to have heard some big joke, "What are you thinking about all day long? How do you get mixed up with those messy people? I can't paint all day long, I can't dress up anymore, I am unkempt, I just think about making shredded radish?"

Seeing Yuexiang, she never thought that Jiang Wen would be so angry, just because of such a trivial matter, it was even more unbearable to say anything.

"What do you mean by a messy person?" saw Yuexiang slowly frowning.

"What kind of messy person do you call me?" Jiang Wen turned around twice in anger, "That Wang Dahua, the daughter-in-law who sells pork, can't read a single big word, and the family is illiterate, what kind of friends do you make with her?"

Bang, the fat aunt next door poked her head out, opened a pair of round eyes, and turned around.

"What to see, what to see!" Jiang Wen's face was embarrassed, and he took two steps forward to pull up the moon fragrance and returned to his door.

Closing the door heavily, Jiang Wen paced two steps, as if he had lost some breath, his voice was lower, lighter, and continued: "Yuexiang, I know that you have not been here for a long time and want to make friends, but this friend can't be messed with." I'll just say why you're not thinking about cooking and washing dishes lately, or you're washing and wiping the house, where do you have the elegant and delicate temperament you used to have. ”

Seeing Yuexiang drooping her face, her expression gradually darkened.

In the past, she was elegant and exquisite, because she never had to worry about life at that time, and she didn't have to think about what to eat for the next meal. At the moment, she has spent all her strength in order to live, and all she can do is be clean, and there is a little ingenuity in the cleanliness, such as the broken tablecloth, and the different flowers on the table every day.

Elegance and sophistication are meant to be casual and costly.

However, seeing Yuexiang thinks, it is not necessarily only elegant and delicate to be considered beautiful and interesting, she learned a lot from Wang Dahua from the past completely not, she thinks that she can make a white radish like a snow ball into a sweet and sour sour radish, spicy and crispy shredded radish, it is also very interesting, such a life is as lovely as before.

But these words in my heart, seeing Yuexiang, I don't know how to say it to Jiang Wen.

The door was opened again, Liu Fang stepped into the door with a basket, and as soon as she entered, she asked, "I heard you arguing from afar, what are you crazy about?"

Jiang Wen glanced at Liu Fang's basket and frowned: "Mom, what are you doing with so many folded ears, I hate eating this the most!"

Liu Fang glared at Yuexiang: "It's not a good daughter-in-law you married! She's sick, and all the work has fallen on my head, break the roots of her ears to clear the heat and extinguish the fire, let her body be neat as soon as possible, see what else she can find to be lazy!"

"Fever is not healed?" Jiang Wen remembered something, raised his hand to touch Yuexiang's forehead, and at the moment when he was about to touch it, he saw Yuexiang hurriedly took a step back.

Seeing that Yuexiang didn't say anything, she silently turned around and entered the back room.

Jiang Wen was frozen in place, only embarrassed.

"Look, I already know that these daughters can stand us little people, who are going to fall after two days of work, and their temper is still bigger than the sky, I don't think you can live her!"

As soon as Liu Fang's voice fell, Jiang Wenhuo could get up.

What he minds most is that Yuexiang was born into a rich family, and he is poor and white. Did she regret hiding from him just now?

Jiang Wen was so embarrassed that he turned around and left.

The sky was dark and gloomy, as if someone had taken a pen and splashed ink on the jade white rice paper, and saw Yuexiang lying on the bed/, and the hot tears were sucked clean by the pillow towel before they had time to fall.

And Jiang Wen left and didn't go home for three days.