The cuckoo was stunned when he heard this, "Stay here?" ”

The leper raised the lantern in his hand, swung it forward, and gestured: "Look, in front is the Li family, the Li family who raises snakes." I built a yard next to his house. When we got married, we lived there. ”

The cuckoo suddenly realized, and the nearby terrain clearly appeared in his mind, and it was no longer strange because of the night. Then he smiled: "Except for the remote place, I think it's very good." The village was a little crowded. If you live here, you can dig some mountains to grow melons and vegetables, and you are not afraid of the scourge of wild beasts. ”

Erni said happily: "That's what I thought. ”

As he spoke, he arrived at the place, and there was a white radish planted in the field. The shed is erected in the center of the ground, and four pillars support a hanging tower, which is empty below, and the top is a wooden fence above it, and people sleep on it.

At the bottom of the shed, Erni let go of the cuckoo's hand and asked the leper to bring her a bench to sit on, but she walked to the side, squatted down and pulled it with a bamboo stick, and took out a clay pot from the soil.

The cuckoo followed and asked, "What is this?" ”

Erni smiled and narrowed her eyes into a line, and said, "Guess what?" ”

The leper hung the lantern on the pillar and said with a smile: "The cuckoo will definitely not guess." ”

Seeing that Erni had dug out all the ashes from the firewood, the cuckoo guessed: "It must be some kind of meat buried in the hot ashes and simmered like this." ”

Erni and Leper both laughed when they heard this.

At that moment, the leper moved the crockpot to the shed, Erni touched two pairs of dishes and chopsticks from the top of the canopy, and after a meal, she used a piece of cloth to open the lid of the crockpot, and lifted two layers of white paper.

The cuckoo was stunned. "What kind of meat is this?" ”

She hadn't heard of it.

Erni finally burst out laughing, feeling that the sound was a little oozing in the quiet night. Hurriedly covered his mouth and whispered, "Come and take a look." ”

The cuckoo doesn't need to be called. I've been looking for it early.

I saw Erni stirring in the clay pot with a small bamboo hanging that looked like scooping wine, and then picked up a big thick bowl, scooped a hanging of things and poured it into the bowl. The cuckoo looked in the dim light, and in addition to the unknown pieces of meat, there were also wheat, and the wheat grains that had not even removed their skins were simmered to the point that they swelled and cracked, revealing a milky white inner pulp.

"I still don't see any meat."

The cuckoo said, because he really couldn't stand the smell. I swallowed my saliva unconsciously.

Erni glanced at her, laughing more and more, and her face flushed.

After adding a large bowl, he handed it to the cuckoo and said, "Taste it and guess." ”

The cuckoo took it, and Erni filled another bowl and ate it with the leper.

"This is a forest frog, caught by a leper at night. We had a lot to do at night, and we were hungry, so I would make a fire at night. Bury the jar in the ground and eat it when you're done. ”

Erni took a piece of meat to feed the leprosy, and explained to the cuckoo on the other.

The cuckoo took a sip of the soup first and praised: "It's so fresh! ”

The leper eats meat. said vaguely: "I saw that Uncle Li caught the family and went to feed the snake, I thought that people don't eat this thing the same?" In the famine years, they even eat the bark of trees. I caught it and called Erni to get it, it was very delicious. ”

The cuckoo ate another piece of meat. After taking a sip of soup, Fang said, "Of course you can eat it." It's a big supplement! You work at night. It's best to eat this. The wheat is simmered like this, and it is especially strong in the mouth. I'll simmer like this when I go back. Previous......"

She almost said that she had eaten field chickens (frogs) in her previous life. I held back the danger.

Because she heard the sound of "sucking" and "clicking", she looked up and saw that the unmarried couple of Erni and Leper were head to head, you had a piece of meat, I took a bite of soup, and I ate happily, or Erni fed the leprosy, she couldn't help laughing.

"Why do you have a lot of things? Also busy at night. ”

Cuckoo asked, confused.

Erni told her that the leper father and mother fell to death when they crossed Wasp Ridge, and he grew up in front of his uncle. Uncle himself has several sons, and he can't take care of him too much. Since the age of fourteen or fifteen, the leper has been carrying and carrying, carrying out large stones and timbers from the mountains, and slowly saving enough, with the help of everyone, he has built the current yard. But after the house was built, there were still a lot of odd jobs to do on your own.

"The other night we picked up stones and built up the walls of the courtyard - we lived on the hill, and if the walls were not built firmly, it would be dangerous for wild beasts to come in; These days, we are beating adobe at night, and it doesn't matter if the chicken coops, pig pens, and livestock sheds are built with adobe. No, they're almost busy. The day after tomorrow, we have to prepare the dishes......"

The cuckoo was stunned when he heard this, and he almost revered them.

The two of them talked and ate as if it were a normal thing.

Sweating on her head after eating, Erni took out a not very clean hand towel to help the leper wipe the sweat. The leper grinned, and held still for her to wipe. When it was finished, she looked into the bowl again, waiting for her to feed herself, enjoying it.

Erni glanced at him and deliberately mocked: "The Zhang family is tall, and before he grows up, he began to carry stones and wood, and he was stunned to become a dwarf." ”

The leper didn't care, just laughed.

The cuckoo asked, "What about your family?" ”

The in-laws should also help, why do you let the little couple work so hard at night?

Erni said: "My family? My two younger brothers are still young, my father and my mother are busy all day long, I have to go home to cook during the day, what if I don't come at night? ”

The cuckoo was dumbfounded, and soon smiled again: "Fortunately, this family has been propped up." ”

Erni and Leper also smiled happily, with a sense of accomplishment and down-to-earth.

After eating a bowl, Erni filled some more and let the leper drink the soup with both hands.

The cuckoo suddenly thought: they are afraid that they caught the forest frog and simmered it to eat, because the fish and yellow eels caught have to be kept for hospitality. It's just that the crooked fight is right, and the forest frog simmers wheat like this to make up for it. Just look at the ruddy look on Erni's face.

She only drank a bowl of porridge at night because of a nervous stump before, and then she felt hungry, and this forest frog soup was fragrant, so she also started to eat it and ate it completely.

Erni wanted to help her, but Du Juan hurriedly shook his head and said, "I can't eat it." ”

Erni also said that she couldn't eat it, so she gave all the soup and meat at the bottom of the jar to the leper, and he drank it all with a snort, and poured it all into his stomach, making the cuckoo smack his tongue.

After eating, Erni put the jars, bowls and chopsticks in a basket, and the leper carried the fishing net, and the three of them walked east along the foot of the mountain, which was the direction leading to the leper's new home.

On the road, the cuckoo always felt that there was a thin whistle and the murmur of autumn insects in the silent autumn night, and he stopped several times to listen; He looked up at the mountains and fields, and looked up at the dark sky, hoping for the first quarter moon to emerge obscured by dark clouds.

Erni asked, "Cuckoo, are you afraid?" ”

Du Juan smiled: "It's not that I'm afraid, I always think it's beautiful tonight." ”

Erni immediately excited: "Huh? In fact, every night is beautiful. Sitting by the river and listening to the water is beautiful. Sometimes when I see a meteor, I can paddle it fast, in the blink of an eye...... There are a lot of fireflies flying in the summer......"

Du Juan once again subverted her impression of Erni: Unexpectedly, this girl doesn't know a single word, but she is such a person who understands the joy of life. She likes the night, in addition to what she says, I am afraid that she is also affected by love: she is busy and tired with her beloved, and she snuggles up to each other under the silent night sky. People who are immersed in love see everything in their eyes and listen to everything in their ears that is moving. Moreover, the night is suitable for a quiet experience, even if the colors are monotonous, but the sound is rich and the breath is even more charming!

When he arrived at the leper's new home, a dog barked to meet him.

When the cuckoo saw that the wall of the gate was intact, he asked, "Are all the walls of this courtyard built?" ”

Erni said: "This is the front yard, and it was built when the house was built." I just said that picking up rocks is for building a backyard. The backyard is not fenced, and there are wild beasts that plague the vegetable garden. ”

Only then did the cuckoo understand.

After entering the house, another oil lamp was lit, and Erni first led the cuckoo to see all the rooms, although it was not so exquisite, but the household and other things were complete, which showed that the little couple was attentive.

The cuckoo praised and said with a smile: "Let's go to the kitchen." After eating so much, I always have to help with some work, not to mention that I can't sleep right away. ”

Erni laughed.

So a few people went to the kitchen, the leper burned the fire, and the two pots were started together, the cuckoo used a large pot to marinate the pig's head and pig's trotters, and Erni used a small pot to fry melon seeds and peanuts. Soon, the stove house was filled with aroma. The dog could not stay in the yard and ran into the house to go around.

The melon seeds and peanuts are newly harvested, and they are fried with a fragrant fragrance.

After the cuckoo put the braised pork seasoning down, he covered the pot, and then stood next to Erni to watch her fry melon seeds, while sipping melon seeds, he smiled and said: "This thing is fragrant!" ”

Erni couldn't help waving the spatula and stir-frying, and said dejectedly: "That's it, it's all here." I didn't have to eat it for the New Year this time. He can't be busy alone, he doesn't know how to serve when he plants it, and he doesn't know how much he can harvest if he relies on the weather to take care of it. Look at this particle, so small! My melon seeds are bigger than this, and they are very full. ”

The leper answered under the stove: "What am I watering if I don't have fat?" I can't poop twice a day. That's not enough! ”

"Poof!"

The cuckoo squirted melon seeds from its mouth and fell on the stove laughing.

Erni put the melon seeds in the pot into the basket, shoveled and fell down with a "whoosh" sound, and said: "Stupid!" You can burn some grass ashes and sprinkle them. ”

The cuckoo stopped laughing and said, "When you come, raise more chickens and geese." Shovel out the manure in the cage every day, mix it with grass ash and soil, it is a good fertilizer. That's what my dad did. ”

Erni nodded, saying that of course it would be different when she got married, and then crackled and said a lot of measures, all about the future of the small family, even what to plant in front of the house and behind the house has been planned, and it has also been decided to go hunting with the leper in the future.

While lighting the fire, the leper stretched his neck out and listened greedily to the two girls. For the prospect described by Erni, he had a yearning and intoxicated expression on his face.

This night, Du Juan and Erni slept at the leper's house.

Sleep in a new house, a new bed, a new bedding. All the utensils, including the bed, have not been used, and he is currently sleeping on the old bed and the old bed, and he will move in when he is married.

The cuckoo said embarrassedly: "It's not big, is it?" (To be continued......)