Chapter 001: Five Years Later
The lunar calendar has just arrived in November, and the city of Dayue Beidi has been snowing heavily, covering the snow flakes like goose feathers, falling in a flutter, and soon, a thick layer of ground has fallen on the trees on the ground, dripping into ice, here, almost no other colors can be seen.
In a small farmhouse courtyard, on a broken wooden stake, stood a small figure, about five or six years old. In the cold wind, the little baby's body is also straight, maintaining a posture and squatting, motionless, and soon, his whole body is floating with a layer of snow and becomes a snowman.
"Erzhuang, it's too cold, let's stop practicing, hurry back to the house!"
Mo Xiaohe took a feather duster and began to sweep around the little baby, although he met his son's eyebrows and eyes several times, Erzhuang puffed out his cheeks, motionless, with stubbornness and tenacity in his eyes, his father said that if he didn't practice martial arts, he would have to help the dwarf for a lifetime, and he couldn't marry his daughter-in-law, not to mention, and he couldn't protect his mother and sister.
Er Zhuang felt that his mother didn't seem to have to protect himself, everything was with his father, and he was afraid that his mother's hands would be blackened by the fire, his sister was more than a year younger than him, and he was talented in martial arts, and he had only practiced for a few months, so he was better than him, and he didn't need him, this reality made Er Zhuang very sad.
As the only one in the family who is dragging his feet, Gu Erzhuang has changed from being careless at the beginning and being lazy when he seizes the opportunity to being so angry and striving for strength now, and he has indeed experienced a tortuous mental journey.
He looks like a mother, handsome, a little boy and girl, and has a natural scholarly temperament, which does not fit his local nickname at all, so he is often ridiculed.
After losing a few fights with the children in the village, Gu Erzhuang reflected, his natural beauty is difficult to give up, in case he no longer has a good martial arts, what should he do if he is arrested to be the husband of the village in the future? You can't make your own decisions when you marry a daughter-in-law!
Gu Meimei looks more like her father Gu Zheng, and her temperament is also similar, she was born with eight pounds, dark skin, sharp edges and corners, she is only more than three years old now, her small arms and legs have strength, and the brother and sister have made moves, he is the one who was abused, which makes Gu Erzhuang very faceless.
Squatting and standing for two hours, Erzhuang was sweating up and down, he got down from the wooden stake, put on the mink coat handed over by his mother, and said with a look at the board, "Mother, my mother is a failure, I still have to practice martial arts." β
Mo Xiaohe couldn't cry or laugh, and nodded Erzhuang's head with his hand, "Look at you, what are you talking about?" β
She has always wanted to convince her husband that Erzhuang is only more than five years old, so she can withstand it with such practice? Every night, she has to soak in a medicinal bath to strengthen her body and invigorate her blood, and the smell is pungent, and she can't stand it.
In the past, Erzhuang's little bun had a lot of eyes and always tried to be lazy, but when she saw this, she could be more or less relieved. Since losing the last fight with Gu Meimei, Erzhuang suddenly changed overnight, and there is no need to supervise or urge to practice martial arts, he is very attentive.
Mo Xiaohe stopped her twice, but she was blocked back by her son, and she had a feeling that she was meddling.
Time flies really fast, it has been five years since Mo Xiaohe returned to the hill in the village of Dawu Biancheng after he was born and became stronger.
A lot of things have happened in the past five years, not long after arriving in the mountains, the city lord of Licheng was imprisoned, it is said that the city lord colluded with the small country in the south to break away from Dayue, after all, Licheng was the territory of the barbarians in the past.
According to the law of Dayue, collaborating with the enemy and treason, connecting the nine clans, still looking at the face of the queen's mother Mo Yan, let the Gu family escape, but there is one condition, Gu Zheng must come back to take over the position of city lord.
As a result, Mo Xiaohe's identity rose and became the wife of the city lord.
Licheng City Lord's Mansion went up to the housekeeper, down to the little girl who cleaned, there were no less than hundreds of people, Mo Xiaohe was numb when she met these people to salute, but she was tired of living in a crowded place, and she always felt that there was no **, and she couldn't find a sense of security.
The City Lord's Mansion is too big, and it takes several hours just to walk in the garden. There is no small kitchen in the main courtyard, before the mother-in-law Mrs. Gu hated the smell of fireworks, the big kitchen was far away, the maid came over with the food box as fast as possible, and the meals were not as hot as just out of the pot, especially in the cold and snowy winter, and the daily meals had almost no temperature.
Mo Xiaohe almost collapsed, if she had a choice, she would rather live comfortably. I don't want to find trouble, so I look at everything coldly, but she stays out of the matter again, can't stand the trouble and takes the initiative to find the door, the people are intrigued, and she is looking for her as a lady to comment at every turn, you frame me, I frame you, she is tired for them.
Not long after, Mo Xiaohe found out that she was pregnant again, Gu Zheng found that she was depressed all day long, so he built a stone house in a deep mountain and old forest in Licheng, and the whole family moved.
In the past, each person's position remained the same, each performing his own duties, if there was any urgent matter, relying on carrier pigeons to communicate, so that it was convenient to communicate with each other, and the husband and wife lived almost semi-secluded days. Different from the border city of Dawu, Licheng belongs to the land of bitter cold. Every year from the ninth month of the lunar calendar, in the spring of the following year, the ice and snow melt, which lasts for about half a year, the people have to live in the cold.
Mo Xiaohe was afraid of the cold, wrapped in all kinds of fur early, hid in the room in winter, did needlework, and asked her cousin Mo Daya to chat together, Mo Daya and Xu Tietou had nowhere to go, and they also followed them to build a house next to them, the distance between the two families is less than 100 meters, and they can be seen every day
"Why is it snowing again? This north wind is really like a knife! β
Mo Daya was carrying a fish in her hand, wearing leather gloves on her hands, fully armed, she was followed by Xu Tietou, carefully protecting her by her side, with a serious expression, it seemed that in the next second, Mo Daya fell, and Xu Tietou was going to immediately cushion her back.
"Cousin, come in and warm up!"
Mo Xiaohe couldn't educate Gu Erzhuang, a bear child, and was infinitely sad, and when he saw Mo Daya, he immediately diverted his attention. It took five years for my cousin's body to recover, and a month ago, she was found to be pregnant, and now it is less than three months, which is the most dangerous time.
There are a total of four rooms in the house, good lighting, spread the fire kang, in the house in winter, warm, put some dried fruits and snacks on the small kang table, drink tea and chat about the snow, as long as you are in a good mood, you can do anything casually.
The floor is made of wood, so you should change your slippers before entering the house to prevent the snow from the soles of your shoes from getting water stains on the ground. Mo Xiaohe imitated the modern decoration style, made a wooden wardrobe, a sofa, a small suite with a bed, a multi-treasure pavilion, and a Chinese-style hexagonal and octagonal palace lamp hung on the top.
Upstairs there is a special storage room, dry and ventilated, in order to prevent mice, get a dozen large hanging baskets, hang sausages and bacon, and there is a special cold storage underground to store ice, leaving the summer to store fresh meat.
Mo Daya sat on the edge of the kang, looked at Gu Meimei, who was silent and didn't say a word, twitched the corners of her mouth, and saw that this girl was biological, a miniature version of Gu Zheng, and she didn't like to talk, she was only a little kid who was just over three years old, quiet all day long, and her personality was really not pleasing.
She still prefers Er Zhuang, but Er Zhuang's appearance is too delicate, Mo Daya muttered in her heart, the appearance of the brother and sister is opposite, Gu Meimei's appearance, if there is no large dowry, it will be difficult to say that she is married in the future.
"Meimei, go play with your eldest brother!"
Mo Xiaohe hugged Gu Meimei and kissed her, she loved this little girl like a husband very much, even more than Erzhuang, always a little more patient and tolerant.
In the past, she thought that no matter how many buns she had, she would be able to treat them equally, but later Mo Xiaohe found that she was too naΓ―ve, and it was already the best result to be able to make a bowl of water as flat as possible.
Gu Meimei nodded, quietly stepped on the small bench and got off the kang, holding a handful of pine nuts in her hand, planning to find the eldest brother and the second strong brother and go to the backyard to feed the squirrels together. The brother and sister have very different personalities, but their relationship is very good, and they like to stick together when they have nothing to do.
"It's snowing today, shall we eat fish pot?"
Mo Daya swallowed her saliva, she and Xu Tietou lived together, they always felt lonely, and there were only two husbands and wives together when they ate, the table was empty, and she was looking forward to the little life called for her stomach.
Yingluo said that there is still hope for her situation to improve. The miracle doctor only said that there was hope, but he was not so sure, and Mo Daya sentenced herself to death in her heart.
She felt that she was sorry for the old Xu family, she didn't leave incense for Xu Tietou, and when she was old, she was as lonely as Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, which was called bad.
The second elder suffered when he was young, and he couldn't survive the first two years, and passed away one after another, but fortunately, there was Gu Zheng by his side, taking care of the second elder's afterlife, helping to wear linen and filial piety, Mo Daya was really afraid that she would die one day and no one would bury her.
When she was almost desperate, with a little life, Mo Daya was ecstatic, but thinking of what had happened to her, she had nightmares for days, and before she knew it, she had lost a whole circle of weight, and she still relied on her cousin Mo Xiaohe's guidance to go through this hurdle.
"Okay, let my brother-in-law make the fish fillet thin, put it in the pot, and roll it around and it will be cooked."
Mo Xiaohe agreed with both hands, and then drank some milky white fish soup, it was good to sweat comfortably on a cold day. There is a dedicated bathroom in the home. It is a large pond that can hold a large family.
The water is from the hot springs outside, and there is a steam room next to the bathroom, and there are charcoal stones in it, and when the charcoal stones are hot, and if you sprinkle water on them, the heat will immediately steam up the room.
Mo Xiaohe must take Gu Meimei to take a bath every day, this girl's skin follows her husband, it is darker than wheat, and it is said that white covers a hundred ugliness, and she looks a little ...... In case it gets dark again in the future, how can you get married?
The hot spring water is quoted with great effort, she thinks that since she was a child, there will always be a little effect, at least the skin is getting smoother and smoother, Mo Xiaohe is personal experience, and she has gained a lot of benefits.
took an eight-treasure box from the drawer under the kang table, and the two sisters talked in one place, the dried fruits in the eight-treasure box were all wild on this mountain, and were made into original flavor and five-spice by Gu Zheng according to Mo Xiaohe's requirements, usually Mo Xiaohe was idle and bored, drinking hot tea, and eating melon seeds to pass the time.
She is the only one in the family who eats snacks, don't look at Erzhuang and Meimei's young age, but they don't like to eat, every time Mo Xiaohe takes something in front of the child, her face is a little hot.
"Cousin, compared to Licheng, the climate in our Mojia Village is better, I really want to go back and have a look."
I just have this idea, but it is not easy to go back, unlike modern trains, planes, how far the road is, two or three days will be almost there, and the whole process here depends on cars and horses, and it will take a month at the earliest.
Erzhuang wants to practice martial arts, Meimei is still young, the big and small things in the city lord's mansion, relying on her as a nominal lady to take care of it, Mo Xiaohe is tired, she has no ambition, she just wants to live a quiet and comfortable life.
She hopes that Erzhuang will grow up quickly and be able to take over the position of the city lord on her own, but she doesn't want Erzhuang to grow up, because that means that she is also old.
It's not easy to be a mother, at this time she thinks about the future, the children's relatives, and the future.
Cousin Li He and the prefect's eldest lady finally got married, there was no one in the woman's family, and the family affairs were very low-key, mainly because the uncle and the eldest aunt have not been optimistic, after all, they used to be young women, and they relied on maids to serve them, which seemed a little out of place with them.
Li He rarely insisted on it once, and when his family mentioned the family matter, he used silence to confront, and in the end, the eldest lady finally entered the house. After entering the door, I was sick, more than a year has passed, and there is no news from my stomach, even if I am an honest and honest uncle, I am starting to be anxious.
Li He has been taking care of the daughter, never giving up, the two of them are living quite peacefully, just mentioning them, the eldest aunt has to sigh, after two years of work, most of the hair is gray.
Mo Xiaohe can understand his cousin's difficulties, and feel extremely helpless for his grandparents, uncle and aunt, they are all honest and responsible people, and they can't say anything about letting Li He take a concubine, so the two parties are in such a stalemate, and they are tied in a dead knot.
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