Erni said: "What's not good? When a person like you sleeps here, that's to save face. ”

The cuckoo snorted and laughed.

As he was talking, the leper came in with a large bucket of hot water and let the two girls take a bath.

He made a point of emphasizing that the large tub was also new and unused.

Erni waved his hand and chased him away: "Boil another pot of water, one bucket is not enough." ”

The leper hurriedly said, "I'm definitely going to burn it." That's not enough! ”

While trotting out again.

When the big bath bucket was filled with water, the leper was immediately kicked out of the room by Erni and told him to get water to wash and sleep by himself, so he didn't have to come over.

The leper was pushed forward, and when he arrived at the door, he didn't forget to hold on to the door frame and turn around and tell Erni: "If you are afraid at night, call me!" ”

Erni pushed him out of the room and said, "I know, I know!" ”

Du Juan looked at this simple young man and woman, moved by their simple love, and his heart was filled with a strong warmth. Yin Xiao asked Erni, who came back from closing the door: "If you shout that you are afraid, is he guarding the door of the room?" ”

Erni twisted her body in shame and said, "How can there be! What am I afraid of? ”

The cuckoo laughed and stopped asking her.

Subsequently, Erni insisted that the cuckoo wash first, while talking to her, telling her a lot of things about her and the leper, the cuckoo listened to it with relish, and occasionally the feeling of the clouds breaking through the moon appeared, which was fleeting.

That night, the cuckoo slept deeply.

In the early morning of the next day, when it was the scheduled time for morning exercise, she didn't get up, turned over, and fell asleep again. It wasn't until the dog barked outside and she saw that the window was lit that she got up unhurriedly.

Erni got up early and cooked. Leave the cuckoo to eat.

For a while, the leper came back from collecting the yellow eel, and wore seven or eight pieces of grass to give to the cuckoo.

The cuckoo hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You have worked so hard to get it. I can't ask for it. Leave it to yourself. My family is not short of meat to eat, and I only came back from hunting yesterday. ”

The leper said, "You take the cuckoo." I still have a lot of them. ”

Erni also said: "What are you polite to me?" Hospitality, that's all there is to it! ”

As she spoke, she took the cuckoo's hand and walked towards a vat at the base of the courtyard wall. The cylinder head had a broken notch, and a stone was pressed on it. She asked the leper to remove the stone, uncover the cylinder head, and motioned for the cuckoo to look.

When the cuckoo looked at it, he couldn't help but shudder and took a step back.

There was a large vat of yellow eels in that tank, which wriggled like snakes, and she was so cold that she could see it. "So much!"

Erni said proudly: "There is still a tank in the house!" I'm afraid that you will feel uncomfortable when you look at it, so I didn't let you see it last night. How about it, do you want this yellow eel? ”

The cuckoo smiled: "Yes, yes!" Sister Erni, when you get married, I won't send anything else, I'll go up the mountain to hunt some pheasants and help you add a bowl of vegetables. ”

Erni said happily: "Okay! ”

The leper said again: "There are loaches, and fish ......."

Erni said: "These two kinds of cuckoos are often eaten. Who is rare. Unlike the yellow eel, she can't fish, so I gave her. ”

The cuckoo couldn't help but praise her for being careful.

After the meal, Du Juan and Erni each carried a bunch of yellow eels back to the village.

before walking to the river. I heard a crisp voice on the other side called "Sister Du Juan-" followed by a soft and glutinous children's voice, also calling Sister Du Juan.

The cuckoo looked up and saw that there were Ren Yuanming and Ren Yuanqing's little brother and sister standing opposite.

She hurriedly shouted, "Stand there and don't move!" Wait for me to come over. ”

There is a wooden bridge over the river. They didn't want to take a detour last night, so they crossed the water directly. The cuckoo was afraid that the little brother and sister would be unstable. So they were commanded not to come.

After crossing the river for a while, the little brother and sister pounced on them with joy.

Erni looked at the two babies carved in pink. Said enviously: "Cuckoo, your cousin and cousin are so good-looking. ”

The cuckoo taught the two to shout "Sister Erni", and smiled at her: "Little babies are like this." Make it clean, and it's pleasing to watch. If you don't believe it, you'll know when you're born. ”

Erni made a big red face.

The cuckoo took Yuanqing by the hand and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Yuan Qing smiled and bent his eyes and said, "I miss Sister Cuckoo." I went to Erni's sister's house with my brother, but I didn't see it, so I came here again. ”

Ren Yuanming also said: "My sister didn't go to practice martial arts in the morning, and my father and mother asked." ”

Du Juan knew that Ren Sanhe was worried, even if he heard the Huang family say that he was in Erni's house, he still had to call Yuanming and Yuanqing early in the morning.

She raised the yellow eel in her hand and said with a smile: "I got something good at Sister Erni's house." Look, I'll cook it for you. ”

Ren Yuanming hurriedly grabbed it and carried it, not afraid at all.

A few people laughed all the way to the village.

Last night, the cuckoo went out of the village to the west, then to the south to the side of the mountain, and then to the leper's house; Naturally, you don't have to go back so much today, just go north and go directly to the front village.

After entering the village, passing by a river ridge, the riverside is littered with some willows, acacia and other large and small trees, the riverside is near the water's edge and there are many bluestone slabs of different sizes placed one after another, and many mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law and daughters squat on the side of the stone slabs to wash things. There are laundry washers, vegetable washers, bamboo plaques and sieves, and beans washing...... The sound of laughter flowed with the sound of rushing water.

One of these voices was particularly prominent, and it poured into the cuckoo's ears.

“…… You say, such a noble person, let go of that rich life, how determined is it to marry the head of my family? My Yuan'er is kind-hearted, and I am reluctant to give up the cuckoo, but I still insist on marrying her as my daughter-in-law. People don't have to be concubines! You say, 'It's a disservice to her?' I won't mention that the eldest daughter-in-law saved her life. An orphan girl who was picked up, let alone marrying a daughter-in-law, was to be a girl, and she had nothing to say; She was good, she was wronged, but like our family owed her, she ran to the mountains in anger and walked around for four or five days before coming back. When she came back, her nose was not a nose, and her eyes were not eyes, and she instructed the finches and orioles to wait for her to bathe and eat. After eating, he didn't even wash his clothes, and he ran away. I haven't come back yet. The whole family was so anxious that they couldn't eat and sleep, and her father and mother were sad to death. Yuan'er took Huang Li to look for it, in the middle of the night, he was a scholar, how could he walk at night......"

While arranging her clothes in the water, Mrs. Huang counted the cuckoos.

The more she spoke, the more smooth she became, and she forgot Huang Yuan's advice to the fullest.

Those daughters-in-law echoed one after another, saying that the cuckoo was too much, and they didn't marry this or that, and they didn't know what to do when they made trouble.

Erni was so angry when she heard this. She won't say anything else, the cuckoo didn't go home last night, didn't she tell the leper to go to Huang's house to report the news, why did Aunt Huang's mouth change completely?

The cuckoo listened to his grandmother's nonsense with a smile.

Yes, that's!

It will never be possible for grandma to change this problem; It will never be possible for Feng Shi not to care and not be angry after listening to his grandmother's words. Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are all matched, and they are still a perfect match.

But it's the cuckoo who listens to this today!

She went to a willow tree and squatted down, and shouted into the river, "Grandma, what do you say?" ”

Aunt Huang was so frightened that her hands shook and turned her head to look behind her.

I saw my granddaughter squatting under the willow tree, looking at her with a smile; There were also two small dots next to him, Yuanming and Yuanqing, as if watching a play, looking at these people under the river; Erni stood aside with a straight face.

The eldest lady was stunned for a moment, and immediately shouted, "Do you still know how to come back?" You ......"

Du Juan interrupted her and said, "I slept at Erni's house last night, help her." Didn't I call Brother Leper to go home? Brother Leper said that he met Huang Yuan and Huang Li on the road and told them. Why, Huang Yuan didn't tell grandma about this? ”

Aunt Huang said angrily: "If I tell you, I won't go home?" Just make your way! ”

The cuckoo ignored her words, and then said: "I went to the mountains to work tirelessly, and got those Ganoderma lucidum and medicinal herbs, which will be sold for two or three hundred silver, why does grandma say that I go to hang out?" ”

The river was quiet, and everyone was attracted by "two or three hundred silver".

Originally, the river was in a hurry, and there was the sound of beating clothes and brushing sieves, and if the voice was not high, they couldn't hear it at all, so everyone stopped and twisted their necks sideways, watching her grandparents and grandchildren on the ridge of the river and under the river, and they were pulling on the opposite side.

Aunt Huang saw that everyone looked at her and felt aggrieved.

But how could she refuse to give up with that temperament, and insisted: "Don't talk about it if you don't go shopping, didn't you go up the mountain because you didn't feel happy?" Miss Zan hasn't been wronged yet, but you are hypocritical first. If it weren't for your mother's desperate efforts to bring you back that year, you wouldn't know where you are now. I don't know what to do like this, I don't know how to repay ......"

Du Juan interrupted her: "Grandma, my mother saved me, but you threw me into the river that year, and this life will be returned to the Huang family." Later, my grandmother lost me again in Lishugou. Speaking of which, Grandma owes me an extra life! ”

The cuckoo calculated the ledger with the old woman seriously, and it was very clear.

Yuanming shouted loudly: "Yes, I still owe a life!" ”

Yuanqing also shouted softly: "I owe a life!" ”

When Mrs. Huang heard this, she almost fell into the water.

Du Juan knew that she was going to scold next, and without waiting for her to scold, she smiled again: "Of course, I won't ask grandma for debts, grandma can rest assured." I still want to thank my mother for saving me, so I stayed at the Huang family to repay the favor. ”

Aunt Huang said angrily: "Repay the favor? Revenge is pretty much the same! Look at the toss you tossed Yuan'er, worrying about you all day long; Your mother is pregnant, and you don't ......."

Du Juan reminded: "Grandma, Huang Yuan was also picked up. ”

Aunt Huang was even more angry, raised her voice and said: "Yuan'er helped the Yang family earn that lot of silver, and she also accompanied them with three thousand taels of child support, can you compare?" ”

The cuckoo also said in a loud voice: "Why can't I compare? The Yang family sent Huang Yuan to school, and he later opened a shop to earn money for the Yang family; The Huang family did not send me to study, but I taught the grandchildren of the Huang family to read; I have been feeding chickens and pigs since I was three or four years old, washing and cooking, doing housework, and when I grew up, I went to the mountains to hunt and raise my family, how can I not compare? The three thousand taels of silver paid by the Huang family to the Yang family were also earned by me. Otherwise, Huang Yuan's shop in Fucheng would have been gone a long time ago! ”

Mrs. Huang asked incredulously: "Did you earn the three thousand taels of silver?" ”

The cuckoo said categorically: "I earned it!" I fried the tea and sold it! One thousand taels of silver a catty, if you don't believe it, go ask my little uncle. ”

The river exploded with a bang, and I was more shocked than I had heard of two or three hundred pieces of silver. (To be continued......)