Zhang Rui shrugged his shoulders and cried in the courtyard for a long time, and finally Zhenyuan went over to help him up and helped him into the West House.

Zhenshu thanked Mei Xun and didn't look back when he saw him. also came to the West House, and heard Zhenyuan complaining inside: "I wanted you to discuss with her, but you have to call that Dou Keming, what kind of good thing is he?" Now that it's like this, if she insists on not allowing you to go to Chunfu, I can't do anything about it. ”

Zhang Rui said: "Good lady, don't ask for a second sister for me, she listens to you the most." ”

Zhen Yuan scolded: "You are too light, how can you make that Dou Wu say such unbearable words?" ”

Zhang Rui apologized: "It's all my confusion, it was because they were happy to come and drank two more glasses." I have always protected my second sister, if it weren't for me, I don't know how much she would have suffered today. ”

Zhenshu lifted the curtain and entered the room, and saw Zhang Rui kneeling on the ground and Zhenyuan sitting on a chair. She was afraid that they would be embarrassed and would retreat again, so she saw Zhang Rui kneeling over and said, "Good second sister, don't let me go back to take the exam this time, I promise to go back to Liujiazhuang to accompany my wife immediately after the exam, okay?" ”

Zhenyuan also stood up and said, "Just let him go, I'm upset to be crooked like this all day." ”

Zhenshu pointed at his nose and said, "Then you have to remember, if you don't come back after the end of the Spring Festival, I will chase you to the ends of the earth and slaughter you with my own hands." ”

Zhang Rui was overjoyed, clasped his hands on his chest and said, "Thank you second sister for your success." ”

After that, I went to pack my things.

Zhen Yuan shook her head and sighed: "Originally, I thought he was a little gentle and petty, but unexpectedly, I saw that he was a scoundrel, and I pity these sins that I have created." ”

Zhenshu grabbed her and said, "It's better for me to guard you here, and then go back when you give birth." If he is gone, two children and an old man are really not reassuring. ”

Before Zhenyuan could say anything, she saw that Zhang Rui had already jumped in with a burden, stretched out her hand and grinned in front of Zhenyuan: "Second sister, develop some silver." ”

Zhenyuan immediately blushed and bit her lip and lowered her head. Zhenshu was afraid that Zhenyuan's face would not be able to pass, so he touched a silver ticket of two hundred taels from his arms, and took a look at it and stuffed it into it and touched Zhang fifty taels to come out and said to him: "Before you have a spring season, I will send an apprentice to the side of the examination room to deliver things for you, and other candidates will prepare them for you, and you can keep these for a few days to develop." ”

Zhang Rui saw that two hundred taels had become fifty taels, and said with a bitter face: "Good sister, develop more so that I can go to worship the master." ”

Zhenshu said: "If you have eight strands, you can enter the hall without a master, if you can't pass through the eight strands, it is useless to worship more teachers, I only have these, if you don't want to return it." ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to grab the silver ticket, Zhang Rui put it in his arms and said, "Thank you second sister, take good care of my mother for me." ”

After that, he was leaving. Zhenshu wanted to stop him, but Zhenyuan stopped Zhenshu and said: "Let him go, I also drink bad wine all day here, and I can't have a good time when I smoke it." ”

There are no vegetables in winter, and this Zhuangzi is a rural area after all, there is no better food supplement except for some chickens, so Liu's mother is an old man who has never seen the world, and she can't do some good things in Beijing. It's just that Zhenyuan is now pregnant and has a big appetite, and a big bowl of soup cakes is not enough, so she has to add another bowl. Zhenshu accompanied her to use a bowl, and when she saw that the sky was getting numb, she collected the dishes and chopsticks and took the short-legged kang table to the kitchen to wash. Mother Liu came in and took the kang table and said, "How dare you work girl, you can wash your old body by yourself." ”

Zhen Shufu returned to the kang and was relatively speechless with Zhen Yuan. Zhen Yuan suddenly asked, "I heard that you wrote from you last time that the lost silver of the ancestor was found, but is it true?" ”

Zhenshu said: "It's true, the fourth uncle shook out 10,000 silver tickets in the corner. We're all wrong to blame Zhenxiu. ”

Zhen Yuan said: "Exactly, she is a blood sister, let's doubt her like that, no wonder she hasn't been happy." ”

The two were talking, when suddenly someone outside shouted: "Second Miss Song! ”

Zhen Yuan smiled when she heard this: "It's Liu Gongzi, why is he here?" ”

Zhenshu also smiled: "I happened to meet him earlier, and he said that he was going to pay homage to his grandfather, so he must have come back." ”

Zhen Yuan lifted the window sideways, looked out with Zhen Shu, and saw that Liu Wensi was still wearing the new silk clothes, carrying a fat chicken and a big duck in both hands, and carrying a sheep on his back into the kitchen. Zhen Shu smiled and said to Zhen Yuan: "He is here to prepare New Year's goods for you." ”

Zhen Yuan patted Zhen Shu's head shyly and said, "I'm afraid I saw you coming, and I prepared it for you." ”

The two were laughing at the window, and Liu Wensi came out with a basin of water to purify the water. Zhenshu shouted from the window: "Young Master Liu, come in and say something when you come." ”

Zhen Yuan hurriedly covered Zhen Shu's mouth and said, "How can you call him in?" ”

Zhenshu broke Zhenyuan's hand and said, "Liu Gongzi, come quickly." ”

She turned around and jumped off the kang to get dressed, and then spread the corners of the kang flat, swept two brushes, sorted out the chairs and tables on the ground, and then dusted them up, Liu Wensi had already smiled and lifted the curtain and came in. Zhenshu lit two lamps, one on the kang and the other on the ground, invited Liu Wensi to sit down, poured a cup of tea for him and asked, "I'm afraid they are all sold in the market?" ”

Liu Wensi said: "Exactly." ”

They were originally young boys and girls from the same township, but now they are older than each other. But far away from home, and such a cold night, there is some intimacy. Liu Wensi looked at Zhenyuan and asked, "Did you still vomit today?" ”

Zhenyuan glanced at Zhenshu, and saw that her eyes were full of banter with a smile, so she covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said, "No." ”

Liu Wensi nodded and said, "That's good, that's good!" I was afraid that you would still vomit, so I prescribed appetizing medicine in Langzhong at the market, handed it over to the kitchen, and told Liu's mother to ask her to boil it for you to drink twice a day. ”

Zhenshu looked at these two people like they didn't talk for the first time, and Liu Wensi looked more like the child's father than Zhi Zhangrui, and he regretted it in his heart, and he couldn't go back to Wenxian more than a year ago. But when he first went to Beijing, the Su family was ambitious to find a son-in-law for Zhenyuan, where he could see the son of a rich man like Liu Wensi. She got up and said, "I still have to go outside to see the horses and the people who are coming, and the eldest sister will sit with Liu Gongzi for a while." ”

Without waiting for an answer, she left the house and went to the outer courtyard, she saw Mei Xun sitting upright on a small stool under the west wing corridor of the outer courtyard, and went over and said, "Sir, have you ever eaten?" ”

Mei Xun nodded and did not answer.

Zhenshu said again: "Either you will go back to the inn in the bazaar tonight, and it will be the same if you come to pick me up tomorrow morning." ”

Mei Xun didn't answer again, and still sat like that. Seeing that he refused to speak, Zhenshu pointed to the room behind him and said, "I asked Mother Liu to lay out the futon for you, then you will rest here tonight." ”

Then he got up, took his stool, and went into the house.

Zhenshu shook his head and said, "What a weirdo." ”

She personally checked whether the gate was properly inserted, whether the cattle were secure, and prepared the forage for the night, and Liu's mother cleaned up and washed the wolves of Zhang Rui in the main room of the second courtyard, and then cleaned herself and tiptoed to the door of the West House. Liu Wensi and Zhenyuan didn't know what they were talking about in the house, and Zhenyuan was eating and laughing. Zhenshu listened to it, and moved a few sons to sit under the eaves of the main roof and look at the moon in the night sky.

The moon here is as round and bright as Caijia Temple, how many times has she sat under the eaves and looked up at the moon in the night sky, how many dreams of a girl with spring, how many times she has had a temper with Zhenxiu, and how many times she has wandered on the beach on the bank of the Wei River under such a night sky.

But after all, this qiē is empty, and the girl's dream will eventually wake up. Zhenyu sent her maid ring to Dou Keming's arms, Zhang Rui disregarded his wife for the sake of spring and future, and Tong Qisheng died in a drunken dream under the prostitute's thin feet. This is the only good son-in-law they can find, a virtuous son-in-law and a high son-in-law. It seems that no one can escape the snare of reality, and the innocent girl will eventually wake up from her dream and become a nagging and complaining woman.

Liu Wensi lifted the curtain and came out, saw Zhenshu sitting on a small table with his hands on his cheeks and looking at the night sky, came over and hugged his fists and said, "Liu said goodbye." ”

Zhenshu hurriedly wiped the coldness on his face and got up and asked, "Where do you live?" ”

Liu Wensi pointed to the west and said, "I live in the courtyard next door." ”

He walked to the west corner of the wall, pointed to a small door on the corner and said: "The two courtyards were originally connected, because Zhang Gongzi was afraid of complicated population exchanges, so he nailed this door to death." If you have any problems, I will come right away when the wall screams. ”

Zhen Shu answered, sent him out of the door and slammed the door tightly from the inside, before entering the Westinghouse. Zhenyuan was already lying down, and when she saw Zhenshu coming in, she asked, "He's gone?" ”

Zhenshu snorted, Shang Kang uncovered a quilt and lay on the other side, and said after a while: "When we were about to go to Beijing, we passed through Hanjiahe, and Liu Wensi once said: If you see your eldest sister, tell her I asked her." If she hears this, I will be in vain. ”

Zhen Yuan also said after a long time: "Why didn't you sue me earlier? ”

Zhenshu said: "I also have many things in my own heart, and I forgot about them later. ”

"I can't go back!" Zhen Yuan suddenly sighed: "After all, there is no going back." ”

She asked her mother to urge her to find such an unsuccessful man, but she met the lover she liked each other with a big belly, and she couldn't go back after all.

Zhenshu was thinking about Yu Yichen in his mind, from meeting him when he went out of Beijing, to Wanshou Temple to the inn, from the bits and pieces of their acquaintance to getting along last night. She wasn't afraid that Yu Yichen would lie to her, she could sense his humble and desperate love for her, and she herself was not like that. His courtesy and restraint told her to let her down, and the web of his tenderness finally caught her, and let her slowly net into this freak of love, until last night, when the gentle spider silk finally bound her and made her unable to break free.