Song Mian has lived in the countryside for many years, and there are many tenants in the Song family, he is not a local accent, so he said that he is here to find relatives, and his family is dressed as a scholar, but there are many people who are willing to show him the way.

All the way to the front of the Shigui door, the whole robe, and then wipe a touch of sweat, thinking about it once, I don't know what to say in the first sentence, standing in front of the door, one hand behind the back, separated by a wall, it seems to be separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

Shi Gui and water chestnut were pounding sour dates, a pot was full of sour dates, water chestnut took a rolling pin, and turned back and forth in the basin, turning his hands full of jujube meat, Ye Wenxin sat on the small pestle and watched them pick out the dates and throw them in, and they were sweaty.

The countryside pounding cake is coarse, and you don't have to pound the dates into jujube meat, just go to the core, a layer of glutinous rice flour and a layer of jujube meat, and then spread yellow rice on the top, and then steam it out in the pot is naturally the jujube cake.

Ye Wenxin is skillful, a small handful of scissors in her hand varied, cut out of the window flower paper spread on the yellow rice cake, a palm-sized, with thousands of weeping chrysanthemums, rich and flowery Yutang Spring.

The water chestnut was naughty, shook off a piece of happy eyebrows and spread it on the yellow rice cake, embedded a black sesame seed in the eyes of the magpie, and wanted to fill the petals with red and green sugar silks.

made pastries on the steamer, steamed out and had to send some to the neighbors, everyone had to distribute Chongyang cakes, none of them saw such a coincidence as Ye Wenxin, Mrs. Liu took the cake and smiled from ear to ear: "The daughter-in-law of the Wang family in front is a coincidence, she can spell out flowers, it turns out that the girl is more clever, what is this called? ”

She opened the door to go out, but she stood outside, and when she looked at it, she was a child, and she bluffed her face: "Why do you stand in front of other people's doors in broad daylight and be a door god!"

Song Mian hurriedly accompanied her, Mrs. Liu saw that he was not bad, looked at him, folded her hands and said, "Who are you and what are you doing?"

Song Mian said that he was looking for someone, and as soon as Mrs. Liu heard about it, she turned around and went in: "You wait for me to call you." Shi Gui speaks without an accent at all, she can speak official dialect, and she can also speak Jinling dialect, and she can also speak a few words of Yangzhou accent with Ye Wenxin, so she knew that she was originally a foreigner, and she entered the courtyard and called Shi Gui: "There is a descendant outside, saying that she is here to find Shi Gui girl, and her accent is not like a flat person." ”

Shi Gui didn't react for a while, his heart jumped, and he thought that Shi Dad had come to find her, and he was still holding the sour dates in his hand to remove the pit, and ran out in a mess.

Ran to the door just saw a person in a long shirt, Shi Gui saw that it was Song Mian, his heart was pounding more and more, Mu Mu walked up to him, Song Mian turned around to look at her, first looked at her, I haven't seen her for more than half a year, she has grown taller, looking at her complexion, not as if she has been rubbed, and nodded at her.

The two didn't know what to say for a while, Song Mian moved his mouth, his heart was full of questions, first wanted to ask her how she was demoted to the head of the village, and then wanted to ask how to help her, there were many things to say, but there was only one sentence on his lips: "What's wrong with you?"

Song Mian spoke, no matter who he was talking to, he spoke softly, especially at this time, looking at Shi Gui with a smile on his face, but his eyes were very pitiful, and he seemed to sigh slightly, feeling unfair for her.

Shi Gui and he have always been friends, but at this time, he has a hand of jujube mud and jujube meat, his hair is only tied in front of his placket, his head and face are sweaty, standing in front of the door, looking at him is also the same appearance, in order to rush over, I don't know how many miles he walked, his robe was stained with mud, and his back was also wet.

It turned out that she had already thought of a statement, and she didn't say anything to Danzhu Shiju, and only asked them to think that she had made a mistake, but she refused to say that she made a mistake in front of Song Mian, so she was called out.

can't lie and can't speak directly, so she simply doesn't speak, Song Mian saw that she didn't see her sideways for more than half a year, but she was much older, and she was stunned for a while, and she couldn't remember the little girl who was still combed when she first met in the other garden, and the sleeves of her clothes hung down over the tips of her fingers.

The weather is hot and hot, and not everyone is dressed at home, there is no ice in the small courtyard, one is not easy to send over, and the other is afraid of falling into people's eyes.

Shi Gui is the same, she only has a silver gauze shirt, with a water-green bandeau inside, no pants outside, and a water-green belt around her waist, Song Mian looked at her, but didn't dare to look at her, and the words that she thought about thousands of times in her stomach came to her mouth and turned back.

"Is my house up?Has the field been repaired?" Shi Gui had jujube mud in his hands, but Song Mian took out a handkerchief and came out to wipe her, Shi Gui rubbed the silk, and couldn't wait for him to speak, so he simply asked first.

Song Mian took out a wooden comb from his sleeve pocket and said with a forced smile: "This is a birthday gift for you, it's late, I'm sorry." "The top is carved with flowers, very finely made, with fine and dense comb teeth, and two small flowers with shells pasted on both sides.

Shi Gui didn't reach out to pick it up, looking at Song Mian looking left and right about it, his face turned pale, he pursed his lips and didn't dare to ask, Song Mian made up his mind, took Shi Gui's hand, stuffed the comb into her hand, and held it without letting go: "I went back and asked, your father didn't go back when he ran away from the boat, your mother and your grandmother took your brother to find him." ”

Shi Gui was stunned: "Where to find it? He asked someone to bring the letter?" At this point, he still thought about things in a good place, Shi Dad has been honest and accustomed to it all his life, running boats with people, and everyone who has extra money has to bring some private goods, and then sell them when they get to the place, the boat boss opens his eyes and closes his eyes, and the boat runs without oil and water, and all he earns is hard-earned money, and leaving some space for them is regarded as a subsidy and subsidy.

But the stone father won't, he can't be greedy for people's cheapness, he has no place to spend money on it, the family has no house, he has to go to the family to find it, he must have bought a house somewhere, and then he will ask someone to come back.

Song Mian couldn't bear to look at her like this, he was silent for a long time and didn't speak, those were just his guesses, Xu was really the same person who came back to pick up people, took Qiu Niang's family away, and when the days settled down, he would naturally be able to pick her up.

Shi Gui then asked, "What time is that?"

Song Mian only felt that his lips were scorched, and the sun shone on his eyes, and he held on to the wall with one hand, scraping off the wall powder, and turned into a stutter for a while, snorting: "Three, three years ago." ”

Needless to say, Shi Gui also knew that there was no Shi Dad at home, and with Qiu Niang alone, he couldn't survive the flood, and the grain distributed by the county could be eaten for a few days?

Shi Gui didn't speak, just stared at the two loquat trees in front of the door, and said with a smile: "You're thirsty, I'll pour tea for you." ”

Song Mian was about to excuse herself, just saw her walk in, before she took a step, people staggered, Song Mian stepped forward to support her, Mrs. Liu went to deliver the cake, water chestnut accompanied Ye Wenxin inside, there was no one in the front yard, he didn't dare to touch Shi Gui, and he couldn't let her fall, he circled her with both hands, supported her half of her body, and helped her sit on the steps.

Song Mian didn't open his mouth a few times, Shi Gui buried his head in his knees, and walked for three years, if it was true, he should have come to her a long time ago, if it was fake, the family didn't know where he had gone.

She couldn't hold it for a while, her head was messy, she clearly wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry, Song Mian didn't touch her anymore, rubbing her hot fingertips: "You, what are your plans." ”

When he said this, he didn't dare to raise his head, Shi Gui raised his head from his arm, looked at him with a side face, as if he didn't understand at all, and said softly: "Plans?"

Song Mian took a breath, nodded and said, "You, if your father and mother don't come, how can you redeem yourself?" Shi Gui was still hesitating whether to tell him about the deed of sale, when he heard Song Mian say: "I, I'll redeem your body for you." ”

Shi Gui was stunned, and he understood what Song Mian meant, but he didn't seem to understand at all, how could he have any thoughts, a pair of eyes were black and white, and he looked at him as clear as water, but he seemed to throw Song Mian into a hot pot, and he was hot when he saw it: "People like you shouldn't be a girl for the rest of your life." ”

When the girl's life and death and marriage were completely involuntary, Song Mian didn't dare to hold it tightly just now, but at this time she stretched out her hand, and her fingertips were about to touch Shi Gui's hand, thinking that her family had not been able to open the door at this time, and retracted her hand again: "You, are you willing, wait for me for a year?"

Shi Gui was stunned, his head was raised, his arms were still resting on his knees, and his long hair fell on his chest, Song Mian didn't wait for her to answer, he stood up first and went out of the house: "I'll come to see you next time." ”

The words were vague in his throat, squeaky and unclear, Shi Gui came back to his senses and walked to the door to look out, that Song Mian had already run all the way to the end, and only saw a shadow in the thick green shade.

When Mrs. Liu came back, Shi Gui was still standing by the door, Mrs. Liu followed her gaze and looked forward, but she didn't even see it, and pulled her sleeve: "The girl is so stunned by the sun, hurry up and go inside, her face is red." ”

Shi Gui raised his hand to touch his face, his hands were also cold, his face was also cold, he took a step back, and lay down on the head bed in the house, he had no strength at all, his whole body was soft and cold, Ye Wenxin threw down the scissors and red paper, and came into the house to touch her: "What's wrong?"

"My father and mother are gone. Shi Gui refused to admit that Qiu Niang had deceived someone, maybe it was the real thing? Only I didn't know where to go these four words, but these four words Ye Wenxin understood as soon as he heard them, stretched out his hand to pull the thin quilt for her, took off her shoes for her, and put her head on the pillow: "You sleep, you will be fine after sleeping." ”

The water chestnut saw it outside, so she told Mrs. Liu: "I saw the girl take off Sister Shi Gui's shoes!" Mrs. Liu opened the can and stole the honey, and secretly scooped a spoonful of the honey sent by the Song family to Ye Wenxin to use to soak the sour dates, pinched one and tasted it.

The dates were not soaked, first sweet and then sour, I couldn't help frowning, and said indifferently: "Tsk, what do you care, the master is not a master and a servant, you still have to give that girl a price, can the phoenix still sleep with the sparrow?"