As soon as the ring woman saw the eldest brother coming in, she quickly shouted: "Big brother!", and stood aside in a proper manner.

"Hmm!" the eldest brother replied with his nose and threw the bag of sugar on the box: "You make some sugar boiling water for the happy woman to drink, you can also drink it." ”

"Oh!" the ring woman's voice was as small as a fly. Hurry up and run out with sugar.

When the woman returned to her mother's house with a bowl of steaming sugar water, the eldest brother had already left. Lao Xi also woke up, half leaning on the pillow, but it seemed to have cried.

The ring woman handed the bowl to Lao Xi: "Lao Xi, what's wrong, did the eldest brother just scold you?"

"Hmm!" Lao Xi's tears rolled in his eyes again.

"Don't be sad, big brother has that temper. Quick, drink it while it's hot, it's the sugar that the eldest brother just bought. ”

"Hmm. Lao Xi took a small sip.

"Delicious, old hi?"

Lao Xi nodded, she took a few more sips, and then stopped: "Sister, you can drink some too!"

"I won't drink it! You drink it, drink it all!"

"Sister, your body needs to be replenished, can you drink some too?"

"Oh, you're so long-winded, you'll drink it when you're done! I'll drink it myself!" the woman pretended to be angry.

"Oh, well, then!" Lao Xi drank the rest of the sugar boiling water in one go.

The ring woman took the empty bowl: "Lao Xi, then you can sleep for a while!"

"Hmm!" said Lao Xi, and went to the bed again.

The woman took the empty bowl and wondered as she went: Where did my mother hide the black box? I have just searched all the rooms, but I have not found them.

She came to the kitchen and was about to scoop water to wash the dishes, when suddenly her eyes were blindfolded by her hands.

The ring woman shouted: "Who is it, let go!

"Hey...... Who else but me?"

The ring woman heard a familiar voice, and she shouted happily: "Zhao Wenjun!"

"Haha...... You're so smart!" Zhao Wenjun let go of his hand and hugged the woman from behind.

"Smack!" The ring woman slapped Zhao Wenjun's hand: "What are you doing, this is in my mother's house." ”

Zhao Wenjun was so painful that he quickly let go. The woman turned around and saw Zhao Wenjun wearing a white shirt, his hair combed and sweating profusely.

"You're not in school, why are you running here?" said the ring woman, wiping the sweat from Zhao Wenjun's forehead with her hand.

"Isn't it like I haven't seen you for a few days, and I miss you?"

"Go, don't talk fannyly!Take advantage of the fact that the eldest brother and mother haven't come back, hurry up!" said the woman who was about to push Zhao Wenjun out.

"Oh, I've been walking for hours, I'm tired and hungry! It's getting dark this day, where are you going for me?" Zhao Wenjun said as he picked up the water scoop next to the water tank, scooped half a scoop of water from the water tank, and drank it.

"I don't care where you're going? Huiniang will be back soon! She already knows that we beat the child!"

"Bang" The water scoop in Zhao Wenjun's hand fell to the ground, and Zhao Wenjun's face turned white all of a sudden. He didn't care about picking up the water scoop, and grabbed the hand of the ring woman: "How does my mother know?"

"I told her! Big brother knows!"

"You...... You...... You!" Zhao Wenjun was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"I ...... What's wrong with me? It was my mother who found out that my face was not good, suspected that I had a problem, and scolded me and beat me, I just said it!"

"Ah, are you still beating? Come, I'll see, where did you hit?"

"Here!" the ring woman gestured.

"Ah, no, how do you hit your head? come, I'll rub it for you!" Zhao Wenjun hurriedly went to touch the woman's head.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense here, hurry up! The eldest brother said, we will go through the marriage formalities next month, and we can't meet before this! Otherwise, we will break my legs!" The woman in the ring opened the lid of the pot, took two red sticks and handed them to Zhao Wenjun. Zhao Wenjun hurriedly caught the red lotus and stuffed it into his mouth. "Oh, it's getting dark, where am I going?"

"Then you go to the back of the cattle pen to hide outside, and when the mother and they are all asleep, I will let you in." ”

"This ......!" Zhao Wenjun was a little reluctant, why is the people's teacher so columsy here?

When Zhao Wenjun was hesitating, the woman in the ring was already walking in front with a lit kerosene lamp: "Let's go, don't worry! My mother will be back in a while!" Zhao Wenjun had to follow behind the woman in the ring.

The cattle pen was black and swarthy, littered with cow dung and moldy dry grain grass, and it stinked to death. But Zhao Wenjun didn't dare to say anything.

The ring woman took Zhao Wenjun out of the bullpen and hid him behind a bundle of firewood, before closing the door of the cowpen and returning to her mother's room. Mother, they have returned, washing their faces and feet and preparing for bed. When the two younger brothers of the ring woman saw the white sugar in their mother's house, they clamored to drink sugar and boiled water. The mother picked up a stick and beat them, and the two of them had to pout their mouths and dare not ask for any more.

The woman in the ring lay down next to Lao Xi, and Lao Xi slept soundly.

After a while, the room fell silent.

The ring woman never fell asleep, waited until she was asleep, and pretended to get up to go to the toilet. ran to the kitchen and got a few cold red roots, opened the door of the bullpen, let Zhao Wenjun in, and let him stay in the bullpen for the night. Before dawn the next day, Zhao Wenjun quietly went back to school.

At noon, Lao Xi's husband also came to pick up Lao Xi away.

The woman stayed at home for a few more days, but she never found the black box, and she felt very bored, so she went back to work at the sewing club.

Time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, two months have passed. In three days, the ring woman will go through the marriage formalities with Zhao Wenjun. But she still kept having some weird dreams like before, and she didn't feel at ease, so she went back to her parents' house, ready to ask her mother to invite a Mr. Yin and Yang to see her. By the way, look for that phoenix hairpin again.

"Sister-in-law!" The woman in the ring wore a new pink cloth dress and walked in humming "Outwitting Tiger Mountain".

"Oh, it's the eldest sister who is back! I thought it was the second sister! Come on, come on, sit down quickly!" The sister-in-law who was slaughtering pigweed quickly stood up and moved a bench for the ring woman.

"Huh...... Sister-in-law, although I look very similar to Lao Xi, but Lao Xi can't sing!" Then sit back.

The sister-in-law smiled embarrassedly: "That's right, how can Lao Xi be so capable as the eldest sister?"

"Sister-in-law, you have won the award! I also sang nonsense, and learned from my eldest brother. By the way, what about my mother and eldest brother?"

"Mother and uncle are chopping wood in Zengjiagou! Your eldest brother has gone to a meeting!"

"Oh, then you're busy, I'll go around. After the woman finished speaking, she went into her mother's house again.

She closed the door and rummaged through the cabinets, but still didn't see the black box. Then, she crept into her old house and rummaged through it, but there was still no one.

Where will my mother put the black box? Could it be that it is hidden in the big brother's house! But the big brother does not dare to go to the house! I have to think of a way.

Thinking about it, the woman went to find her sister-in-law again, who had already slaughtered the pigweed and was preparing to cook rice and pig food.

"Sister-in-law, why don't I come to cook, it's so dark outside, I'm afraid it's going to rain, you go and pick up your mother and uncle." The woman said to her sister-in-law.

"This ...... Then you have to close all the doors, we've been making trouble lately. ”

"Ah, won't you? Then don't worry, when you're gone, I'll hold you all tight. ”

The sister-in-law told her again, and then went out with a big back.

The woman was so happy that she quickly filled the two stove holes with a large block of dry firewood, and then ran to the eldest brother's house and rummaged through the cabinets to find it. It turned out that it was still not found.

The woman had no choice but to walk to the kitchen in despair, and suddenly, with a "pop", something fell on her head.

She touched it with her hand, and it was a dry bread of grain! When she looked up, it turned out to have fallen from the attic above.

In the attic, the mother usually uses it to worship the Bodhisattva and put some sundries, and there are a lot of mice. Usually no one wants to go up.

The woman looked at the attic and thought about it, since everyone usually doesn't like to go up, did her mother hide the black box on it?

She decided to go up and have a look. So she climbed up the wooden ladder. When she was about to reach the staircase, she heard a "ding-dong" sound upstairs, as if someone was fighting.