Chapter 3: The Past (2)

"Look at the paper. Seeing Yuexiang holding the paper under the light bulb, "The texture is tough and smooth like jade." Look at the pattern of this circle, it looks like a continuous cloud. ”

"You say what it is, it's what it is, as long as you like it, I'll buy it for you when you're done with it. Jiang Wen smiled and took the pillow on the side, and put Yuexiang behind his back, "Come, sit higher and be more comfortable." ”

Seeing Yuexiang follow Jiang Wen from Shanghai Railway Station to Qingchuan by train for three days and three nights, and then changed to a steamer and swayed along the Yangtze River for a day and a half, and then arrived at Jiang Wen's hometown.

Seeing that Yuexiang had never traveled such a long way, the person vomited as soon as he got off the boat, vomited so much that his mouth was full of bile and bitterness, and then he became ill.

Had a high fever overnight and as of today, she has been in bed/on for a week.

"Don't buy it anymore. Seeing Yuexiang put the paper on the bedside, "You just came back, and you haven't found anything to do, this stack of paper is enough for our family to eat more than half a month's meat." ”

"What's the matter...... Jiang Wen's words were not finished, and with a bang, the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside, and a middle-aged woman wearing an apron stood at the door, glancing inside with a calm face.

"It's time to eat!" The middle-aged woman was Jiang Wen's mother Liu Fang, who turned around and was about to leave after shouting, and then came with no head or brain, "The fart/stock is beaten by gold ingots, but it's very precious!"

Seeing that Yuexiang didn't understand what she meant, Jiang Wen was embarrassed to smile at Yuexiang and comforted: "Don't be angry, my mother is just a rural woman, she doesn't know a single big word, and she is used to speaking rudely." ”

"Mom, you can talk nonsense if you know anything! This paper is not used to relieve your hands!" Jiang Wen hugged Jianyuexiang's shoulders and said to Liu Fang, "This is rice paper for painting, not straw paper!"

"It's so delicate to use one kind of paper to wipe your fart/strands, and to use another kind of paper for whatever you paint. Liu Fang was even more angry, glanced at the bed/on the white face, slammed the door and left.

"Mom, you!" Jiang Wen was also angry, and he wanted to say more when he stood up.

Seeing Yuexiang's blushing face, she hurriedly pulled his sleeve, "Okay, don't say a word, otherwise my mother will be even more unhappy." ”

"What's so upset about her? She didn't spend her money!" Jiang Wen sat on the bed, "She's just a country man who has lived a hard life, and she's a complete countryman!"

"What's wrong with the countrymen?" Although Yuexiang was happy that Jiang Wen was protecting herself openly, she also had to show the attitude that a daughter-in-law should have, so she comforted softly, "The countryman still gave birth to a romantic poet like you, which proves that your mother's level is quite high!"

praised both his son and his mother in one sentence, Jiang Wen frowned when he heard the consequences, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled softly: "Yuexiang, I just discovered today that your mouth is not only as good-looking as a cherry/peach, but also as sweet as a cherry/peach." ”

As he spoke, he leaned down and approached Yuexiang's face: "Come, let me taste it and see if the taste is also sweet." ”

"Don't make trouble!" Seeing Yuexiang hanging her head in shame, she hurriedly put her hands on Jiang Wen's bra to separate the two, "Mom called for dinner, no matter how much you grind/rub the food, it should be cold!"

"Okay, then you lie down, I'll bring it in for you. Jiang Wen got up and was about to leave, when he saw Yuexiang pulling him again.

Seeing Yuexiang lift the quilt and move under the bed: "Don't serve it, I'm almost better, let's go out to eat today." ”

As soon as I came to my mother-in-law's house, I lay on the bed/on the bed for so many days, and my husband had to serve me when I ate and drank.

"Come down and do something, come in!" Jiang Wen picked up Jianyuexiang's leg and stuffed it back into the quilt, "Just a little bit, be careful and sick again." ”

said that he tucked the quilt for her, and then said: "You can lie down with peace of mind, don't worry about my mother, I have the final say in this family." ”

The quilt is warm, seeing Yuexiang's heart is sweet, before getting married, I often heard that the new daughter-in-law will inevitably be angry in her mother-in-law's house, and she can endure it.

can look at the current situation, seeing that Yuexiang only feels that she has a husband who cherishes her so much, she doesn't have to suffer any grievances.

"Is it that you don't have long bones or legs, and you are rotten to death on the bed?" Liu Fang saw that Jiang Wen was the only one who came out, and his face turned blue with anger.

"What are you talking about!" Jiang Wen put aside the chopsticks that were picking up vegetables, "Mom, Yuexiang married all the way and got sick again, what's wrong with you taking care of her more?"

"It's really as precious as that paper, a little toss will kill you!" Liu Fang smacked her lips, "Son, I'm not thinking about you, did you say that you married a daughter-in-law or offered a bodhisattva?"

"Okay, Mom!" Jiang Wen didn't like to listen.

"Don't call me Mom!" Liu Fang also simply dropped her chopsticks, "Good mother doesn't call, you have to call Mom, it's really ugly!"

"This is a new culture, a new civilization, what a mother, a father, is the old society's shouting, you have to abandon it!" Jiang Wen bent down to pick up a chopstick that Liu Fang had just dropped, stood up and continued to serve Yuexiang vegetables.

"You threw your wife and me away with the ball!" Liu Fang picked up the chopsticks and wiped them on the sleeve twice.

"Unreasonable. Jiang Wen glanced at Liu Fang, shook his head and went to the house with the bowl in his hand.

Jiang Wen didn't come out again when he entered the house, the two ate a bowl of rice together, and nested together in the quilt after eating.

Because I slept early, I saw that Yuexiang woke up early in the morning, and when I got out of bed, the sky was dark outside the frosted glass, but Jiang Wen was no longer by his side.

Seeing Yuexiang remembered that there was a kerosene lamp on the table, her family had already pulled the electric light from dark to dawn, and there was also a lamp in Suzhou Art School in the past, even if the light was turned off, there was a flashlight to use, where did she use this kind of kerosene lamp that had to be lit by herself.

Touching the past and learning the way Jiang Wen lit the lamp these days, he struck a match against the wick but couldn't light it, and it always went out with a pop, and after three or four times, she couldn't find the reason and lost her patience, so she had to use the weak light of the match to push open the door and walk into the hall.

A dim light came through the kitchen, casting shadows in the long and narrow hall.

Listening to the movement, it was Liu Fang and Jiang Wen who were cooking breakfast inside, and seeing that Yuexiang left Liu Fang with a lazy and squeamish impression as soon as she arrived at Jiang's house, she felt very uncomfortable, so she lifted her feet and went to the kitchen, it was rare to get up so early today, she wanted to behave well.

When I got closer, I found that only Liu Fang was inside.

Liu Fang stood in front of the stove with a spatula and was stir-frying, raised her eyelids and glanced at the person through the hot smoke, and didn't say anything.

Seeing Yuexiang, she didn't expect Jiang Wen to be there, and she was a little uncomfortable being alone with Liu Fang, but she had already walked to the door, and turned her head to leave, for fear that Liu Fang would look down on herself even more.

"Mom, let's make breakfast!" Seeing Yuexiang take a deep breath and walk inside.

"Don't you have long eyes?" Liu Fang was not angry.

Seeing Yuexiang pretending not to hear, her face turned red, and she stood on the edge of the stove and rubbed her hands: "Mom, is there anything you need my help with?"

"It's really not long-eyed!" Liu Fang poured the fried loofah in the pot on the plate, turned around and scooped out a large scoop of water from the clay pot, and after shaking the shabu with a broom, he picked up the pot and poured it into the bucket where he saw Yuexiang's footsteps.

The oil splashed on Yuexiang's trouser leg, and when she saw Yuexiang just frowned, she heard Liu Fang speak: "Pestle it, pestle, I don't know how to look at the fire?"

"Oh!" Seeing that Yuexiang couldn't take care of her trouser legs, she hurriedly sat down on the small stool in front of the stove, the firewood in the stove was burning red, and the heat was burning out, and she could see Yuexiang's little face burning and hot.

Liu Fang put the radish vegetables in the pot again, and the spatula slammed the edge of the pot twice: "The fire is hot!"

Seeing that Yuexiang hurriedly picked up the firewood beside her and sent it to the stove, as soon as her hand went in a little, she was burned by the oblique fire for a while, and she retracted after throwing the firewood with a light snort, and the hot sweat went straight down.

When I looked in again, I saw that the firewood that had just been thrown in had extinguished a lot of the original flames, and the fire was even smaller.

Seeing that Yuexiang was afraid of being scolded by Liu Fang again, she was thin-skinned, and she had never been yelled at by anyone since she was a child, except for arguing with her father because of marriage before she got married, and she sweated when someone shouted at her.

He picked up a piece of firewood and poked it in, trying to poke some of the firewood that was holding the flames into it, but he was pounding it and saw that the fire was about to be extinguished.

"Where did you go to make fire?" Liu Fang pulled the shovel twice, and when he saw that the temperature of the pot had not yet heated up, he threw the spatula angrily, walked over in two big strides and leaned over to take a look, and his face was darker than the bottom of the pot at the moment, "I found a daughter-in-law like you, I really poured blood mold for eight lifetimes!"

Liu Fang pulled Jianyuexiang up from the small stool and pushed it to the side of the pot: "It's okay to stir-fry, right?"

Saying that, he sat in front of the stove, took the tongs next to him, set up the compacted firewood in the stove, and fanned the wind again, and after the fire came back to life, Liu Fang continued: "Just a woman like you who is lazy and can't do anything, no man in our hometown is willing to marry!"

"It's just that my son is blind and has fallen into your way!"

In Liu Fang's scolding, seeing Yuexiang sniffing, as soon as her nose was blocked, the heat rolled into tears and wrapped in her eyes.

The handle of the spatula in her hand was almost thicker than her wrist, and she flipped over the dishes in the pot vigorously, and the smoke blew away the tears.

"I'll learn the same. Seeing Yuexiang said softly.

"The boss is not too young to start learning, can you learn it!" As soon as Liu Fang's words fell, he heard footsteps outside, and then Jiang Wen strode in and snatched the spatula in Jian Yuexiang's hand.

Jiang Wen threw the shovel into the pot and there was a loud bang.

"What's wrong with you?" Liu Fangteng stood up suddenly.

"Yuexiang, this is the hand with the brush, not with this greasy spatula!" Jiang Wen was angry, "Mom, if you don't want to do this, I'll hire a nanny tomorrow, and you'll be happy." ”

"Guaranteed...... Nanny?" Liu Fang was stunned, "It's not good to have this spare money to do anything, and you have specially invited someone to serve you, ancestor!

Jiang Wen ignored Liu Fang, just went to help see Yuexiang, and said to her softly: "Don't pay attention to my mother, she is the old feudal, you must not do these jobs, if your mother doesn't want to do it, we will hire someone." ”

"Where did you go early in the morning......" Seeing Yuexiang put her face next to Jiang Wen's shoulder, she felt uncomfortable and couldn't help but whisper angrily.

"Didn't I know that you weren't used to eating dry rice in the morning, so I went out to buy you xiaolongbao. Jiang Wen hugged the moon incense and went outside, "Look, the buns that have just come out of the cage are very fragrant!"

The two sat in the middle of the hall, and Jiang Wen handed the bun to Jian Yuexiang.

"Hmph, what kind of hand to hold a pen! If you have the ability to drink ink all day without eating!" In the kitchen, Liu Fang's resentful voice could still be heard.

Seeing Yuexiang taking a bite of the bun, she said slowly while eating: "What do so many people in the family still ask someone to do, how much more will it cost to invite a person for a month, my mother is unwilling, and I am not willing." ”

"But you ......," Jiang Wen would say again.

Seeing Yuexiang said again: "My illness has been completely cured, in the future, you will look for money outside, and I will help my mother do things at home, how can it be enough." ”

"You've never done anything like this, and it's hard work to do it. Jiang Wen was distressed.

Seeing Yuexiang pinching the bun, she smiled: "With you being so good to me, I don't feel hard." ”

The sky is white, and the hall is gradually brightening.

Seeing Yuexiang, she looked at Jiang Wen's face across the table, and looked out of the door with embarrassment.

Outside the low alleys are patches of tiled houses, and the green hills in the distance are like jade belts under the clouds.

Jiang Wen suddenly took the hand on the table of Seeing Yuexiang, and said without thinking: "I will always be so good to you." ”