The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Su Xiujin faintly heard a few rooster crows, the door of the opposite room creaked open, and there was a suppressed cough from Old Man Li. When she woke up again, she heard the suppressed cry of the fourth aunt in her ears, and Aunt Li persuaded softly on the side.

"My hard-working daughter, she hasn't enjoyed a good day since she was a child, and now she has to take me with her useless wanderings, and this life will be delayed here."

Aunt Li couldn't bear to persuade: "I see that this child is strong, and the lady still doesn't have to be sad." ”

Su Xiujin opened her eyes in a daze, covered with Aunt Li's torn cotton jacket, she called the fourth aunt, and the fourth aunt hurriedly wiped her tears and smiled: "Are you awake?" Seeing that you are sleeping soundly, I didn't call you, so you go to bed and rest in bed. ”

Su Xiujin shook his head, stood up and said, "It's still not stopping, do you feel better?" ”

The fourth aunt hurriedly said: "It's much better, it's much better." ”

Aunt Li also said: "Miss Xiu, don't worry, drink another bowl of soup, and ensure that your mother will be able to go to the ground tomorrow." ”

Su Xiujin is naturally grateful. Zhuanghu's family, before dawn has to go out to do farm work, the old man Li's family still has two fields, all of which were bought with money in the early years, the two fields are not big, but the food is planted, the family's food is not worried, plus in recent years, their own children have become adults, in recent years, the couple has been serving chickens and ducks, raising pigs and feeding sheep or something, and life is not stretched.

Aunt Li went to the back kitchen to make breakfast, Su Xiujin quietly asked Aunt Li where the clean room was, Aunt Li pointed to a dilapidated house built up by earthen walls, a wooden door was almost hung on it, Su Xiujin opened it carefully, the door swayed for a while, and a lot of dust fell, a foul smell made Su Xiujin almost vomit out, and then looked at the mess inside, Su Xiujin almost wanted to turn around and leave, a large vat was buried in the soil, which was full of yellow and white things, and there were many maggots rolling around if you looked closely, There were gray maggots on the ground with their tails wriggling and crawling towards the door, there was almost no place to put their feet, two wooden planks on the cylinder were erected for stepping on their feet, and a large pile of filthy straw paper was thrown in the corner, Su Xiujin held the straw paper tightly in his hand, not knowing whether to enter or not.

At this moment, a man's voice came from behind him: "Which girl are you?" What are you doing standing in front of my hut? “

Su Xiujin turned around, and saw a sturdy man **** on his upper body, wearing only a pair of gray cloth pants on his lower body, his clothes were tied around his waist, and he was eight feet tall.

Li Gouwa's face slowly climbed up a red cloud, he came back from the next village with his cousin before dawn, seeing his father loosening the soil in the field, he naturally stepped forward to help, and the three of them worked, and before the sun fully rose, he finished loosening the land of the two fields, and walked to the door of the house suddenly in a hurry, not to mention taking a hoe and going straight to the thatched house, and saw a girl standing in front of the thatched house from a distance, and thought it was the spring flower next door, but the body was slender, so he asked, but as soon as Su Xiujin turned his head, Li Gouwa's eyes were straight, Su Xiujin's face was delicate and white like cow's milk, her apricot eyes were slightly widened, as if she was resentful, her small lips were slightly pursed, her ten fingers were slender, and although she was wearing a yellow coarse cloth dress that was not clean, she could see at a glance that she was not a village woman.

Li Gouwa swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and her eyes were reluctant to turn.

Su Xiujin frowned at him, and Li Gouwa sighed secretly in her heart, even frowning makes people itch, and it is indescribably good-looking.

"You're Aunt Li's son, right?"

Li Gouwa nodded stunned, Su Xiujin opened her mouth, a mouth as neat as white porcelain teeth, it was really bright eyes and bright teeth, and it was a bodhisattva blessing if you looked at it more.

"Then Brother Li will use it first." Su Xiujin lowered her head and measured her body slightly, she really couldn't make up her mind, even if her legs were sore, she still couldn't let go of this heart.

After speaking, Su Xiujin turned around and walked to the kitchen, leaving Li Gouwa standing in place in a daze, and it took a long time to come back to her senses.

Aunt Li saw that the straw paper in Su Xiujin's hand was useless, and asked with a smile: "Miss Xiu is afraid that she is not used to the thatched house of our villager, right?" ”

Su Xiujin blushed, she has been clothed and fed since she was a child, that is, the toilet is a clean and incense house, a carved and gold-inlaid gong bucket, even straw paper is also soft feather straw paper, where have I seen such a thatched house.

Aunt Li clapped her hands, laughed for a while, and said, "If you are not used to it, we still have a gong bucket, and I will call our kid to take it to the downstream river for you to wash it later." ”

Su Xiujin nodded hurriedly and said, "I'm sorry to trouble Aunt Li." ”

Aunt Li lit the firewood with her hands and feet, and replied: "It's not troublesome, there are difficulties, and it's easy to help."

After a while, Li Gouwa entered the kitchen, and suddenly saw the girl standing by the stove talking to her mother, and she didn't understand at the moment, "Mother, where did this lady come from?" ”

Aunt Li turned her head and said angrily: "This is a show girl, so rude." ”

"Show girl?" Li Gouwa touched the back of her head, "I've never seen this girl in the village." ”

Su Xiujin said: "My surname is Su, I used to live in Suzhou City, something happened at home, I wanted to go to my sister, I didn't want my mother to get hot on the way, there was no one around, I found here, thanks to Aunt Li's help, there is something to disturb, and I ask Brother Li to forgive me." ”

Aunt Li glanced at her son, looked at the girl, how polite, this paragraph is crepe, it sounds like she is ironing in her heart.

Li Gouwa blushed and shook her head violently, "It's okay, it's okay, you can bother as long as you want." ”

The kitchen is such a small place, Aunt Li was busy cooking, and hurriedly pushed her son out, "Look at your cowardice, when you see the girl's family, you can't even say a word." Go and sweep the hut well. ”

When Li Gouwa thought about it, she also felt that her thatched house was a little dirty, and she couldn't ask other girls to dirty her shoes, so she was busy with it.

Aunt Li said to Su Xiujin embarrassedly: "This kid in our family, who is seventeen or eighteen years old, has never said a few words to the girl's family. ”

Su Xiujin nodded, held back for a while, this time I didn't think much about going to the thatched house, I helped Aunt Li to help, after a while, a plate of black steamed buns, two cornmeal steamed buns took out of the cage, made a big pot of cabbage stewed vermicelli, seeing that Su Xiujin was a guest, Aunt Li specially used the lard boiled for the New Year, stewed the radish last night, and fried a pickle, that is, fried a sun-dried beans with lard, added more salt, and used it to eat.

Bringing the dishes to the table, in the hall, Old Man Li was talking to his nephew, and when he saw Su Xiujin coming out with the dishes, he said to his wife: "Miss Xiu is a guest, how can you let someone serve the plate?" ”

Jin Da Niu turned his head, and when he saw the girl in front of him clearly, he couldn't help but grow his mouth, Su Xiujin was also a little surprised, the words of the past seemed to still echo in her ears, she opened her mouth slightly and said, "It's you-"

Jin Da Niu stood up almost immediately, with mixed feelings in his heart, and said excitedly: "Miss Su, why are you here?" ”