Lai Baoqing entered the inner room, sat on the edge of the bed, stared at Ma Lao Er, and his face was as happy as an old chrysanthemum blooming in the dim light.

"You're bothered by this!" Ma Lao Er said to Lai Baoqing gratefully.

"Where's that, Captain Ma. It's all his own children!" Lai Baoqing took out his shabby cigarette pouch from his coat pocket, and then took out his small cloth bag for cigarettes, tinkered with a pot of cigarettes, and then tilted his head and smoked the cigarette pouch on the foreign oil lamp hanging on the bedside wall, and said with smoke in his mouth, "I didn't expect that Dongliang's child would be so sensible." I told Chen Guozhong about this, and Chen Guozhong was still worried about what Dongliang would think. Waiting for Chen Guozhong to ask for Dongliang's thoughts, Dongliang's kid just said a word, and let Chen Guozhong and his family have an idea about this matter. ”

"That's what Dongliang's kid said?" Ma Lao Er didn't expect Chen Dongliang's child to be like this, in the hearts of the old and young masters in the village, Chen Dongliang should be a picky child, it is said that someone has been a matchmaker for him twice before, and he escaped quietly, and this time when he trusted Baoqing, he didn't have a bottom in his heart.

"Dongliang's kid is such a sentence, as long as Chen Guozhong and his family think it is appropriate, they will follow them. Lai Baoqing smoked the cigarette pouch in his mouth with a clattering sound.

"Maybe Dongliang, that kid is embarrassed to say yes in front of his father. Ma Huaniang said with a smile.

"I guess so. Lai Baoqing agreed with Ma Huaniang's pondering and said, "Chen Guozhong and his wife also asked me to give you two a word, and see when the two of you arrange for the two children to meet and talk." ”

"That's right. Ma Lao Er said as if he was trying to find something.

"You two are thinking about this. I have a plan in my heart, just tell me, I can go to Chen Guozhong's house and talk to the two of them. Lai Baoqing knocked the smoked cigarette pouch on the bed and said, "I think this is right, Chen Guozhong and the two of them will also be unpredictable, even if they are looking for it in the village around the lantern, they can't find a good girl like our Ma Hua." It is said that their family is a flat-headed common people, and Captain Ma is the leader of our village, and he also belongs to the cadre family. If they can climb this family business with our family, it can be regarded as climbing a high branch. ”

"What kind of cadre family, they are all ordinary people. Ma Lao Er smiled and said, "You can't say that, it will make people laugh if you say it." ”

"I'm telling the truth, no matter what you say, our size is a piece of meat on the rooster's head, and we can be regarded as a crown (official). Lai Baoqing put the empty cigarette pouch into his coat pocket, looked at Ma Lao Er and said.

"Ming'er, you can give Chen Guozhong and his family a word, Ming'er can do it at night, or the night after tomorrow, and the two of them will pick the day. Ma Lao Er smiled and said, "Don't let the two of them think that we have a fight." ”

"How can there be a blind date at night!" Ma Huaniang next to her immediately blamed Ma Lao Er, "The blind date at night is a ghost kiss!"

Ma Lao Er woke up just now, and there is no reason to go on a blind date at night since ancient times!

"It's noon the day after tomorrow, it's sixteen the day after tomorrow, it's a good day. Lai Baoqing immediately pinched his fingers and calculated, and said.

"The day after tomorrow is sixteen?" Ma Lao Er also pinched his fingers and calculated, and said, "It will rain in a few days, and the crops in the field have not yet been arranged! ”

"The day after tomorrow is sixteen. Lai Baoqing nodded affirmatively and said, "I said Captain Ma, you, your heart is all about the production team, and your own affairs are sloppy." ”

"It's up to you to look at the arrangement. Ma Lao Er looked at Lai Baoqing and said, "In addition, tomorrow at noon, you and Ji Suyan will go to the Donkey Duiji Commune Hospital to pick up Zhao Daya, he is not very convenient in the hospital, and he does not even have personal care." Ergazi's child is young, and he doesn't bother with it. When Zhao Daya returns to the village, we can arrange for the people in the village to take turns to cook and drink, and he can also eat hot and moisturizing rice. ”

Lai Baoqing listened to Captain Ma arrange for himself and Ji Suyan to go to the Donkey Duiji Commune Hospital tomorrow to pick up Zhao Daya, and he was happy for a while. But he soon remembered the most important thing for Captain Ma at the moment, and he could afford it for Captain Ma, so Captain Ma entrusted himself to pull this thread for Ma Hua and say this medium, why should he do this matter properly first. He looked at Ma Lao Er and said, "It doesn't matter, tomorrow after breakfast, I'll go to Jisuyan to pull a rack cart, and go back and forth to the donkey, which is a matter of half a day." It's just that we have to figure out the matter of Ma Hua and Dong Liang, the two children. ”

"As long as Chen Guozhong and the two of them agree, it will be nothing sooner or later. Ma Lao Er looked at Lai Baoqing and said, "This matter is entrusted to you, so you can think about the arrangement." Anyway, we live close here, and it will be there in the blink of an eye, and it won't take much time for the two children to talk, and the two children have been playing together since they were children, unlike the people who love faces across the village. ”

"The two children are familiar, they used to be children in a village, and they didn't have too much to do. Ma Hua Niang still looked at Ma Lao Er with some dissatisfaction and said, "You, all day long, you are thinking about those things in the production team, when can you take some time to take care of our Ma Hua's affairs properly and then think about the production team." ”

"Isn't this arranged for Lai Mao's father? Let him arrange a day for the two children to talk for a while, and the matter will be settled!" Ma Lao Er glanced at Ma Huaniang with a smile and said, "When the matter of these two children is settled, we will slowly prepare to buy a dowry for the girl to marry." ”

"Say you're talking nonsense, you're still sober, it's just that the matter of these two children has really been decided, and you are ready to buy a dowry for your daughter on the day when you don't decide to get married, don't people laugh at you?" Ma Huaniang pouted and looked at Ma Er.

"You have to worry more about your daughter's affairs, and you can talk to me about anything. Ma Lao Er first turned his face to look at Ma Huaniang, then looked at Lai Baoqing, and said, "There is one more thing in the past two days, that is, to erect a monument for Grandma Liu. After Ming'er and Ji Suyan go to the donkey pile, you have to inquire about the things you need to buy to burn five or seven pieces of paper for Grandma Liu. No matter what, Grandma Liu has been in our village for one or twenty years, and she is also a person in our village, so we can't bury her in the ground, so we just forget it quietly. Besides, Grandma Liu is a hero again, let's do these things for her decently, just to let the old and young masters in the village keep the character of Grandma Liu in their hearts, and get along with the neighbors in the future. ”

Lai Baoqing kept nodding to Ma Lao Er, and also wrote down these arrangements of Captain Ma in his heart. He knew in his heart that it was not early, and he had already reported the matter of Ma Hua and Dongliang to Captain Ma, and it was time to go back to bed early. He glanced at Ma Lao Er, stood down from the edge of the bed, and then said a few polite goodbye words to Ma Lao Er.

Ma Huaniang said grateful words to Lai Baoqing and opened the door with Lai Baoqing.

Lai Baoqing left Ma Lao's house like honey in his heart, humming a tune that he didn't know what it was, and thinking about how to arrange for Ma Hua and Chen Dongliang's child to meet. Suddenly, he heard a very strange sound on the side of the firewood and straw stack on the side of the road, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and his heart was also trembling. He took a few steps, and the voice sounded again, and he thought to himself again, no, how could this sound be like a woman's cry under a man's body? Could it be that this spirit would do the same thing as a man and a woman? He slowed down a little, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully, and it was really a woman's voice. Oh my God, in the middle of the night, those spirits are also making up for that like people! He couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, and his feet ran towards his house like the wind.

Lai Baoqing slammed open the door of his house, his legs were weak, and he sat on the ground with a pop.

Lai Maoniang, who had just laid down, sat up from the bed with a sigh, and shouted angrily: "Who?"

"I ...... Come back...... Finish. Lai Baoqing sat on the ground and replied weakly like a lost soul.

"You're scared to death!" Lai Maoniang touched the foreign fire and lit the foreign oil lamp on the table in front of the bed, and then rubbed her eyes and looked at Lai Baoqing. After looking at it for a long time, Lai Baoqing was sitting on the ground!

"It scared the hell out of me, too. Lai Baoqing finally took a breath and sat on the ground and said.

"Which one are you singing? Why did you break in and sit on the ground?" Lai Maoniang stared at Lai Baoqing in surprise.

"On the way back, I ran into a spirit. Lai Baoqing patted his chest, his mouth still panting widely.

"How can there be a spirit? You are cowardly, but you are scaring yourself. Lai Maoniang pouted.

"I really bumped into a spirit. Lai Baoqing's other hand pointed out the door, and then told Lai Maoniang the voice he heard on the road, "Why do you listen to the voice of a woman, in the middle of the night, whose woman is not lying in her own house, running to the firewood and straw stack to put there and pretend to be neurotic." ”

After listening to Lai Baoqing's words, Lai Maoniang was also surprised in her heart, she pondered in her heart, and then shouted for Lai Baoqing to get up and go to bed quickly, complaining to Lai Baoqing and saying: "It's you who listen to the evil! Get up and go to bed." ”

Lai Baoqing got up from the ground, patted the dust on his buttocks with both hands, and then he was about to go to bed, but at this time, he felt that his legs were not as good as they were just now, and they were sinking like falling into a big stone.

"Sleep, don't scare yourself, there's nothing. Even if there is, it is also the people of the village who are making trouble there at this time. Lai Maoniang urged Lai Baoqing and said, "Can the spirit monster make a fuss about that?"

After listening to the woman's words, Lai Baoqing also began to muttered in his heart the voice he had just heard, why did he feel a bit like the voice of a woman in the village? Whose voice was it? Why don't you tinker at home?

"What are you thinking, go to sleep, Ming'er still has to get up early to work, aren't you tired?" Lai Maoniang urged Lai Baoqing again, and said, "Don't stay there and think about it." ”

Lai Baoqing figured out that the voice was like a woman in the village, and his scared mind slowly calmed down a little. He scratched his head, sat down on the edge of the bed, shook off his shoes in the blink of an eye, and then lifted his legs, and with a twist of his buttocks like a millstone, he turned them to the bed.

"How do Ma Hua and Dongliang go?" As soon as Lai Baoqing turned his butt and sat on the bed, Lai Maoniang lay down, and asked with a thin cover tugged around his neck.

"It's done, Chen Guozhong and his family agreed. Lai Baoqing heard Lai Maoniang ask him this, and replied with a smile.

"What didn't that kid say?"

"Let Chen Guozhong and his family have an idea. Lai Baoqing began to unbutton his shirt.

"The child's business is originally the father's business, what does the child know. Lai Maoniang heard that Chen Dongliang asked his father and mother to make up ideas for his marriage, turned her head to look at Lai Baoqing, and said in a very approving tone.

"Right now, it's about the freedom of marriage, and my father and mother can't arrange it, but a child is a child, where will it be as far as my father and mother think and think so much. This father and mother can't wait to think of the time when the child dies of old age for the child. Lai Baoqing said casually to Lai Maoniang, "On weekdays, I saw that the child was sensible, silent, honest, and sincere." ”

Lai Baoqing took off the gown on his upper body, and his chest, which had begun to droop, looked even more shriveled in the dim light. A person who is not yet forty years old will have such a body and bones, when will he be like those commune cadres who are not too old, eat fat and fat, and his face will be white and clean, and a forty-year-old person will look like a fourteen-year-old. He patted his chest, and then pulled the loose skin that was hanging down from the top of his chest with his hand, smiled and said, "The skin is loose, and I'm going to get old!"

"It's all year round, and there's no moist food, can you not look old?" Lai Maoniang pouted at Lai Baoqing and said, "Our family is such a life!"

"Hey......" Lai Baoqing heard the woman say this, sighed, looked at the woman and said, "The crops raise people, and they also toss people!"

"It's people who don't work, and it's those of us who spend the year in the fields. Lai Maoniang also sighed, turned over, and said with her back to Lai Baoqing.

"Hell, ......!" Lai Baoqing put the gown he had taken off on the head of the bed, patted it, and tried it out. On weekdays, the clothes on the body are clothes during the day, but at night they become pillows. After he patted the gown, he took off his pants again, folded them in half, and put them on the gown, and then squeezed them with his hands again, and then got into the bed with the big pants.

Lai Maoniang saw Lai Baoqing get into the quilt, her mouth pursed, and she blew out the foreign oil lamp on the table with a sigh.

After Lai Baoqing lay down, he soon fell asleep with a snoring.

Lai Maoniang listened to Lai Baoqing's habitual snoring, and quickly fell asleep.

People who are tired of the day sleep in their dreams, and no one pays attention to what the night in the village will be like.

The famine-stricken rats were scurrying about in such a night in search of food, and the sound of the staggering of the teeth made the night even quieter. In the distance, I don't know whose dog it is, may have dreamed of bones, barking a few times like hysteria, followed by the sound of licking its mouth. This is how the night slowly moves towards dawn and towards another busy day.