6. Liu Datou washes

For Manqing, although it didn't rain that morning, it was also bleak and gloomy. When it was time to go out, she had forgotten the pain in her body, and just wanted to express her grief and indignation! She no longer remembered what others told her what she had done, and all she could do was the slowly rising mound of dirt and the white ...... in the sky

At noon, everyone dispersed one after another, and Grandma Sun and Aunt Six also helped the paralyzed Manqing back to the Gao family's courtyard, comforted her a few words, and then went home. I have been busy in the Gao family for the past few days, and there is still a lot of work waiting for the family. Peasant family, how can there be so much time to grieve the spring and autumn!

Man Qing sat slumped in front of her mother's tablet in the hall in a daze, until there was a sudden boom outside the door, and a thunderstorm sounded. Then there was a crackling rain that fell directly, and suddenly the yard was shrouded in rain and mist. As if his thoughts had been drawn back from the sky, Man Qing remembered that the window in the room might not be closed, so don't get the quilt wet in such a heavy rain.

She struggled to prop up her legs, only to find that both legs were almost no longer her own, and she was swollen and painful, and she didn't have to look at it, her knees must be all green...... With this movement, it was as if all the sensations in the body had returned: pain, hunger, cold......

She was very hungry and hungry, and she couldn't remember how long it had been since she had eaten properly. But at this time, it was as if a big stone had been blocked, and it was estimated that she couldn't fit it, so she still leaned against the wall and moved to the back room.

The courtyard of the Gao family was renovated by Grandpa Manqing when he was alive. There is a lobby room in the middle, two main rooms on both sides, and two side rooms next to each side. This is the basic configuration of the farmhouse, but in order to reflect their scholarly atmosphere, the Gao family has a small courtyard behind the main house, with a cover room on each side.

For as long as Man Qing can remember, Gao Lao has always abused his mother, and then his mother simply moved to her back room to sleep until she passed away.

People who are a little particular about this village will have a habit that the room of the person who has just passed away is not occupied, at least after getting Qiqi or a year later. But where is there such a rule in the Gao family at this time, and there is no place for Manqing to go.

Fortunately, she didn't feel bad at all, but she still had a sense of steadiness that her mother was still alive with her.

When she got back to her room, she closed the window, and looked around to see that her mother's clothes and bedding had been burned to her, and that there were now only a few ordinary things in the room for her to think about. She let out a long breath, changed her muddy clothes, and collapsed, falling asleep.

When it rains, she always sleeps very peacefully, and she is very peaceful. Because it rains, she can't work in the fields, so her mother stays at home. As long as her mother stayed at home, she would take over some of the household chores so that she could relax. How does that poem say, stealing half a day of leisure, yes, that's how it feels.

When she was sleeping darkly, Manqing suddenly heard some sounds, just like in the past, her mother would come into the room to get things while she was sleeping, lightly, and sometimes she would call her softly to see if she was asleep.

Man Qing turned over, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, and continued to sleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but there seemed to be a voice from the old man in the front room, the voice was very loud, and he was scolding this side - let him scold, he called himself a gentleman, he never entered a woman's room, besides, there was a mother in front of him, she would go and tell him......

Manqing didn't wake up until it was dark. She was sweet in her dreams, but Gao Lao was wearing a crumpled robe full of mud marks, and she walked between the hall and the small corridor leading to the back room where Man Qing lived, and I don't know how many rounds!

He's called it all three times!

In the past, as long as he called once, a woman would immediately come out of it, whether it was an old wife or a daughter, and what they told them to do would be done immediately, but now?

Gao Lao looked at the silent tablet in the hall, and suddenly realized that his wife was gone......

Man Qing slept sweetly here, and the savage Zhang over there also slept well. He really lived like a wild man in the grass hut by the river for a few days, and then he returned to his den, lying on a clean and dry bed, and felt like he was a man again.

I slept for two or three hours, and when I woke up, the rain outside the house had already subsided. He walked out of the room, stretched, and made a few stretching fists and kicks, and was caught by the pile of dirty clothes in the bamboo basket under the eaves.

That's the clothes I changed by the river in the past few days and the ones I just changed before going to bed, and it looks like a lot of them.

He frowned, a little strange why Mrs. Li next door didn't come over to help with the laundry.

He lived alone, and the yard was not too big, but there were only three or four rooms, and there was no well. He is not particular about being a big man, and he is even more impatient to do something by himself, so he called a person named Mrs. Li next door to help. In the past, as long as he came back, Mrs. Li would come over to help wash the laundry and make him dinner by the way. He just gave Mrs. Li two or three hundred dollars a month.

Seeing that the rain was not heavy, he didn't bother to bring an umbrella, and walked directly to the next door.

"Oh, Brother Zhang, you are looking for my mother-in-law, she is not at home! My sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter a few days ago, and she went to serve my sister-in-law for confinement! Hey, leave your grandson alone, go and serve her daughter's confinement! It's still a little girl......"

Zhang Ye was impatient to listen to the trivial things in those parents, and went home without looking back.

When he was a teenager, he mixed a lot of industries and traveled a lot of places, and he saw a lot of such people and things, but there were few things that were not trivial, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

But anyone who is a beggar and a gangster is generally easy to go to two extremes, either he has a flamboyant tongue to the extreme, he talks about people and ghosts, and he can live with a mouth, or he is slowly like him, he doesn't like to talk more and more, and he lives by his fists and skills.

He doesn't know when he started to stop talking, maybe too many people said he was pitiful, and he didn't know how to start it. He will never forget what the old carpenter told him: "Son, you have to live like a human being!" At that time, like the other gangsters, he wandered around like a wild dog in search of food to keep himself alive......

After being busy for a while, I went to see the master, and I don't know if his rheumatism is better, Zhang Ye said to himself silently.

As soon as I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I saw two boys who were obviously unemployed vagrants probing their heads into their yards. He was all too familiar with this kind of person, and he needed people lately, so he paced slowly, "What are you looking at?"

Gao Siliang was first frightened by the deep voice, and then turned his head to see such a fluffy behemoth, and was so frightened that he almost couldn't speak, "I-we-"

Liu Datou belongs to the category of slowly eating with his mouth, so he immediately took it, "We are here to ask Zhang Ye, have you had any work recently?" Hehe, our brother wants to find a job to do, just eat your stomach!"

Glancing at the two of them, Zhang Ye roughly made a decision, "Come in." ”

He sat down on the Taishi chair in the hall with a big sword, and gestured to the other side with his eyes, "Sit." ”

Liu Datou immediately nodded and smiled, and while complimenting, he promised to find a chair and sit down, while Gao Siliang was a little flattered and sat next to him in a panic.

Zhang Ye remained silent, but he had a slight impression of the senior high school in his heart.

People are not afraid of being down, and they are most afraid of being down, and they don't feel ashamed, so they can only go on down. This monkey-like guy can still be scared, which means that he still has self-esteem, so there is still salvation. As for this Liu Datou-

"Go and help me wash all the clothes in the bamboo basket outside! Turn right when you go out of the well, and you will be under the big camphor tree. Wash it up!"

This guy still needs to grind more, otherwise he will be a tricky and slippery material!