Zhang's searched for several houses where Peach Blossom was going and didn't find anyone, standing in the middle of the village and squatting on the ground with his face covered and crying, in the winter, no one went out with Ben, so no one saw her with Ben, and it was dark at this time.

In my memory, scenes passed in front of my eyes, the husband's cold words, the mother-in-law's disgust and curses, the ridicule of the concubine, and finally the pity in the eyes of the mother when she left, to the angry eyes of the peach blossoms.

One by one, she slipped through Zhang's mind, and tears couldn't stop pouring out, she had been docile all her life, and what did she get in exchange?

"Peach blossoms are in my house. The carpenter opened his mouth slowly, his voice low and full of distress that could not be concealed.

He had already come, looking at the sad and tearful Zhang but couldn't open his mouth, and finally he couldn't stand it anymore, so he spoke up, thinking that during the day he saw Peach Blossom desperately running out of the village, he only knew that something was wrong, so he forcibly stopped Peach Blossom and carried him back to his home, seeing that it was getting dark, he wanted to go to Cheng's house to report a letter, and he didn't want to see Zhang who was buried in pain in the middle of the village.

Zhang's red and swollen eyes raised his head, "Brother Lin, is the peach blossom really at your house?"

The carpenter wanted to reach out to help her, but finally withdrew his hand hesitantly and nodded, "Yes, that child has been refusing to speak, only curled up on the kang, and I don't worry about her alone, seeing that it is dark and no one from your house is looking for her, so I came out." ”

Zhang stood up awkwardly, "Trouble Brother Lin." ”

Hearing that his daughter was fine, Zhang wiped the tears from his face, and even showed a scattered smile.

Although the carpenter has not been married, but the age of the eldest of the Cheng family is generally old, originally when it was time to get married, the mother of the family died, and he kept the filial piety for three years, who knew that after three years, the old carpenter was gone, and when the carpenter finished the filial piety, the age was also old, and the girl in the family did not want to marry her daughter to an old man, and the conditions were not good, and the forest carpenter did not want to marry a widow, and then he had been alone for so many years.

"Second brother, why did you come out?" saw the people coming over from a distance, and Zhang shouted.

The carpenter instinctively stepped aside again, distancing himself from Zhang.

Cheng Lao Er has a simple temperament, and he didn't think much about it when he saw that Lin Carpenter was here, "Sister-in-law, have you found Peach Blossom?"

The Zhang family knew this second brother, so they didn't worry when they saw her with Lin Carpenter, "Brother Lin came out to deliver a letter to us, and the peach blossom is at his house." ”

Cheng Lao Er thanked him, and the three of them went to the carpenter's house, and when they arrived at the carpenter's house, they saw that Peach Blossom was asleep on the big kang of the carpenter's house.

"Sister-in-law, wrap the peach blossoms. Cheng Lao Er took off the cotton clothes on his body.

The "second brother" Zhang hesitated.

Cheng Lao Er smiled, "It's not far from home here, don't let the peach blossoms freeze." ”

Zhang's nose was sour, he wrapped the peach blossom bag with a cotton jacket and hugged it, and thanked the carpenter again, and the three of them left the house.

When he walked all the way back, he was almost home, and Cheng Lao Er said in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, if my mother asks, I will say that I found the peach blossom in the firewood stomping in the west." ”

The second child of the Cheng family looks honest and honest, but he is not stupid, but he is too soft to afford his family, and he is also powerless.

Zhang's heart warmed, "Second brother, thank you." ”

How could she not understand, it was originally rumored that the forest carpenter had something with her, and if she wanted to say that the peach blossom was brought back from there, she didn't know how her mother would scold her.