Chapter Twenty-Six: The Plague Approaches
In the inner courtyard, two or three servants walked by, looking at the two who were relatively speechless, they all felt something unusual, and they were secretly talking about something in private. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Mu Shan, why don't you speak?" Xiuniang took a step forward, stretched out her slender hand like jade, and gently covered Mu Shan's forehead: "It's so hot, shouldn't you also be infected with the wind cold?" ā
"No, no......" Mu Shan looked at the beautiful face close at hand, smelled the faint fragrance in his nose, felt the slight warmth on his forehead and the soft touch like rouge, he couldn't help but feel flustered in his heart, and even began to stutter when he spoke.
"How can it be ......, my body is stronger than ten cows combined, how can I get such a small illness as wind cold?" Mu Shan couldn't control his thoughts, so he looked away from the thief, and said, "It's you, but you have to pay more attention to your body, these days, ......"
"Ahem...... cough" Before Mu Shan finished speaking, he heard Xiu Niang's cough ringing in his ears, and a sound, as if with a strong weakness, grabbed Mu Shan's heart tightly.
Mu Shan hurriedly turned his head, only to see Xiuniang's weak body, trembling under this continuous coughing, and her jade-like face was dyed with a sickly red.
"Xiuniang......, you, are you okay?" Mu Shan's mind was completely concerned about Xiuniang at the moment, and he didn't notice his voice at all, with an obvious fear and trembling.
"No, what can happen, it may be that I caught a cold last night, it's not a big deal." Seeing that Mu Shan was so nervous about her, Xiuniang couldn't help but be a little more amused in her heart: "Seeing that you are nervous like this, as if I have some incurable disease, you can't help but make too much fuss." ā
"I, don't I care about you, it's good for you to treat my kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs." Mu Shan touched the back of his head embarrassedly, didn't dare to look at Xiuniang, stretched out his right hand, and handed the stack of bear essence fur to Xiuniang: "That, this is my trophy, but it took me a lot of effort to get it, you have to be careful, don't break it." ā
"Nine deaths?" Xiuniang took the stack of bear skins from Mu Shan's hand, weighed the weight, her eyebrows couldn't help frowning, and she said angrily: "You went up the back mountain again, didn't I tell you that you couldn't go to the back mountain?" Back then, all five of us almost died there, so why can't you learn a lesson. Do you have to wait until the day of the accident to regret it! You, you ......"
Mu Shan listened to Xiuniang's reprimand, and didn't take it seriously, but when he heard Xiuniang's voice and began to sob, he panicked, and admitted his mistake again and again: "I'm wrong, can't I be wrong." Xiuniang, don't cry, people who don't know still think I'm bullying you. I promise you, I will never go up the back mountain again, okay! ā
"Forget it, your guarantee is the least valuable thing in the world. Promise me once a day, every time you go out of this door, you throw what you said out of the clouds. Xiuniang pouted angrily, turned around, and said angrily: "I don't bother to pay attention to you, you don't take your life seriously, don't expect me to collect your body in the future." ā
"Look, what is this?" Mu Shan took out a handkerchief from his arms, took out two strings of rock sugar gourds, flattered Liang in front of Xiuniang, and said with a smile: "Sour, sweet, after eating, it will become the same as this rock sugar gourd, bright, red, anyone who sees it will like it." ā
"Hmph, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!" Xiuniang snatched the rock sugar gourd in Mu Shan's hand and held it in her mouth, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, revealing a playful smile. This smile immediately wiped out the anger, blame and anger just now. The whole person, under this sunshine, is like a blooming peach blossom, gorgeous and enchanting.
"Such a large bear skin is enough to make the clothes of several people. Make a set for you, a set for Aunt Qin, and a ...... for Geely."
Mu Shan interrupted Xiuniang's words and said, "You don't need to be auspicious, the best things for that bear are all given to him, and the rest will be made for you." ā
Xiuniang also knew that Mu Shan would not forget Geely, so she smiled and said, "Hehe, if Geely hears it, he will count you for not being righteous enough......
"Get them both out!"
Xiuniang was just halfway through her words, when she heard the voice of the owner of Guan Zhuang coming from the inner courtyard, her expression suddenly became unnatural, she took two steps back, hid the book in her hand behind her, leaned against the peach tree, and lowered her head, like a child who had done something wrong.
When the owner of Guan Zhuang saw Mu Shan and Xiuniang here, he frowned, and scolded unhappily: "Xiuniang, why did you come here again, just go back to the house and stay if you have nothing to do, don't run around." ā
"Humph!" Mu Shan saw that Xiuniang was in front of the owner of Guan Zhuang, and he didn't dare to come out, so a wave of anger rose in his heart, and he snorted dissatisfiedly at the owner of Guan Zhuang.
"Yes, uncle." Xiuniang replied in a thin voice, and turned around and walked in the direction of the house.
The owner of Guan Zhuang glanced at the book in Xiuniang's hand out of the corner of his eye, raised his voice, and asked: "Slow, Xiuniang, what are you holding in your hand, didn't I tell you, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, who let you read!" ā
Although Mu Shan knew that what the owner of Guan Zhuang said was right, he couldn't see Xiuniang's helpless appearance and sat idly by, so he immediately stepped forward and took all the blame on himself: "Master Guan, I asked Xiuniang to teach me to read and write." My family is poor, I can't afford to hire a husband, so I can only wronged Xiuniang to teach me this stubborn stone, I think the owner of Guan Zhuang regards me as a nephew, and it shouldn't kill my future! ā
"You ......" eat people's mouth is short, after all, the owner of Guan Zhuang has just gotten a high-grade bear bile from Mu Shan, so he is naturally embarrassed to turn his face and not recognize people, so he can only hold back his anger at the moment, and said: "Mu Shan, I know that you have played together since childhood, but men and women are not kissed, and you can't get tired of it every day, causing the village to gossip, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about it for auspiciousness, for Xiuniang's reputation!" If this continues, how will you let them go out to meet people in the future! ā
"I ......" Mu Shan was suddenly stunned and speechless, but when he saw Xiuniang's aggrieved gaze, he suddenly felt a thrill in his heart and asked: "Guan Zhuang, don't just talk about me, what about you, what right do you have to decide Xiuniang's lifelong events!" ā
Seeing Mu Shan's repeated entanglement, Guan Zhuang couldn't help but be furious: "I have no right!" Xiuniang's parents died when she was a child, and I raised her and treated her as my own daughter. Since ancient times, the marriage of children must be ordered by their parents, and the words of the matchmaker, I don't have this right, so who has! You! ā
"Good, good, good!" Mu Shan clapped his hands constantly, looked at the owner of Guan Zhuang with no anger and laughter, and said: "You treat Xiuniang as your own daughter, Geely is your biological son, wouldn't it be against humanity to marry your biological daughter to your biological son!" If you don't treat Xiuniang as your own daughter, then you have no right to interfere with Xiuniang's lifelong events! In other words, Xiuniang and Geely can't get married no matter what! ā
"You ......" Guan Zhuang was choked for a while, and pointed at Mu Shan with the index finger of his right hand tremblingly, but he couldn't answer, and his whole face turned the color of pig liver: "Crooked reasoning and heresy!" ā
Xiuniang saw Guan Zhuang's angry seven orifices smoking, and she was speechless, so she hurriedly said: "Mu Shan, go back, don't come if you don't have anything to do in the future." Uncle is right, we shouldn't see each other often, it's good for you and for me! ā
Mu Shan listened to the helplessness and desolation in Xiuniang's voice, and only felt that something was stuck in his heart, which was extremely uncomfortable.
"Humph!" Guan Zhuang looked at Xiuniang's figure walking away, flicked his sleeves, turned around, and no longer looked at Mu Shan, so as not to get angry the more he looked.
Mu Shan stood there, stunned, until the intermittent moaning sounds around him woke him up.
"They ......" Mu Shan looked at the two women who were carried out by the wooden frame, moaning softly, and were delirious, only to feel a chill begin to rise in his heart.
"It's the plague!" The voice of the owner of Guan Zhuang was also filled with deep concern: "Not only Guanjiazhuang, but also in the entire village, there are also many old people who have been infected with the plague and are about to be taken to a quiet place to isolate them, so as not to spread the plague!" ā
"Partition...... Leave the ......" Mu Shan listened to these two words, and couldn't help but think of Qin Mei's figure in his mind, he couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and ran towards the outside of the courtyard.