“…… There's something wrong. ”

Luo Niang took a rag, rubbed around, circled in the yard, and saw Xiao Mo with a sad face, sitting on the stone bench and watching the moon.

"Xiao Mo, why haven't our young ladies said they wanted to eat these days?"

Not only did I not make a fuss about eating fresh food, but I also lost my appetite.

In the evening, Qu Sanniang stewed a big pot of pig's trotters, which were fragrant and soft, crystal clear, and they were so greedy that they salivated before they ate it.

But Miss Hongchen, who loves to eat pig's trotters the most, refuses to even look at it, and frowns when she smells it.

Qu Sanniang was so anxious that she ran over privately to ask, is her craftsmanship worse, or does the young lady want to try it, why not ask a chef to cook some big dishes.

But she didn't eat the big dishes.

Yesterday at noon, Master Xue recommended a chef, who is good at northern and southern dishes, especially proficient in roasting whole sheep, and specially selected a little lamb, which was carefully roasted and charred for her, but Miss Hongchen didn't even look at it, so she asked people to take it out to add dishes to the guests, so that a few scholars couldn't walk to eat.

Xiao Mo also lowered his head, withdrew his gaze from mid-air, and his voice was flickering: "For three days, Miss has eaten vegetarian dishes for three days, and there is no meat at all." ”

Luo Niang was stunned, she didn't pay attention, Miss Hongchen is a little picky about eating, but she just loves freshness, it is not difficult to serve, pay attention to health, every time the meal on the table is also a combination of meat and vegetables, and there is generally a day of diet to clear the stomach and intestines a month, they are all busy now, eating is like a war, and they don't notice whether Miss eats meat or vegetarian.

The garden is brightly lit, and you can even faintly see the shadows of the mountains outside. There is the sound of teenagers reading aloud.

With such a beautiful scenery, Miss Hongchen used to say happily when she saw it: "Add a dish of braised pork!" ”

At this moment, Hongchen walked out of the room, the door was open, and there was a mess of talismans, tortoise shells, copper coins, and some bits and pieces, which were awkward to look at.

Hongchen didn't care at all, and took a piece of letterhead casually. Hand it to the kitten: "Go." Send it to Qiu's house and give it to his old lady...... Luo Niang, I want to eat fried celery and steamed eggplant today. Capers. Cook another bowl of millet porridge. ”

What about meat. What about meat? Luo Niang smiled bitterly, when did the young lady become a rabbit, and the rabbits raised in the teahouse occasionally had to eat some minced meat.

It is said that rabbits that eat meat have better meat quality!

Qu Sanniang's specialty dish is called Drunken Rabbit. It is to give the rabbit meat and drink, raise it for three days, slaughter and cut the pot, and the taste is extremely delicious.

Several guests planned to steal the master, but the chef sent out watched Qu Sanniang cook, and he couldn't make that taste when he went back and repeated the process, because of this secret recipe.

Luo Niang's face was incredible.

Hongchen sighed in his heart, he was as good as a stream, and asked for a fish soup, no fish just soup, Luo Niang felt that the sky was clear, and she went happily.

Then the bowl of fish soup was fed to the old ginseng.

"What a waste!"

She didn't want to drink it anymore, especially when Luo Niang added fish brains and fish eyes to the soup......

"I don't mind."

They don't mind the old ginseng, the plant has a well-developed root system, and they can eat anything.

Hongchen's inexplicable symptoms lasted for seven or eight days, but fortunately, it didn't take long for her to recover and be willing to go to the table to eat with the big guys.

It's just that for some reason, I suddenly felt more emotional, occasionally said some mysterious and mysterious words, and often sighed that life is not easy.

Life is not easy, is it only now that I know this kind of thing?

Another good thing, Master Tao's inferiority complex of doubting himself, doubting life, and doubting everything has also passed, and he went to work in their teahouse again.

The efficiency is very high, and a number of beautiful dolls were made quickly, and the safe one was the first to polish and color, and Hongchen tied it with a red rope and hung it on the neck of the puppy, and it seemed to like it very much, and it was not noisy at all.

In the past, when I dressed this little thing, it was only well-behaved in front of Hongchen, and when it turned its head, it tore and bitten, and it had to be broken.

"The old lady of the Qiu family is sober up now, saying that she was confused at that time, and now she looks at the doll I repaired, and thinks that everything is good, and she specially asked her eldest son to come over to apologize to me in person."

Master Tao was also a little embarrassed, "She is a good person, and I don't care about this little thing." ”

Don't care about it, but you still have a temper and don't work? I was embarrassed to say that I had to support my family, and I wanted to be so wages that I refused to even give a discount.

On this day, as soon as Hongchen was about to go to the academy, the Qiu family handed over the news, saying that the old lady wanted to visit. This mountain road is not easy to walk, the people of the Qiu family are afraid that the old man will fall, and he will persuade him hard, but he can't persuade him to live or die, where can Hongchen let the old man in his sixties visit her, not to mention that he has just been sick, and he is suspected of having a stroke.

The Qiu family is not a big family in Qi County, after all, the foundation is very thin, and they are all from a bitter background that can't even eat.

Even now that the conditions are good, the Qiu family still lives together, the house looks cramped, and the lights are dim.

The three brothers and their wives sat in the east wing, which made the little room even darker.

"Our old lady didn't know how to do it in the past two days, she asked if the shroud was ready, and then asked if she had chosen the cemetery, and said that she wanted to prepare two coffins, and she wanted to ...... Daddy......"

The eldest son of the Qiu family frowned, if it weren't for his mother's ear, he wouldn't even want to call his father, his mother always told him when he was a child, saying that his father was a big hero, a hero, and loved them very much, but when he was a child, he was still willing to listen, but now he refuses to believe it, maybe because he saw that his brothers were disabled, that person refused to be responsible, and sneaked away, leaving only his mother alone to take them to suffer.

"Big brother, did you say that Dad is still alive? If my mother really has that idea, why don't we find it for her old man? ”

The second child of the Qiu family has been blind since he was a child, and he has been very well protected by his mother and brother, and he has not suffered too many crimes, and he is also the one who has the most good impression of that father in the family, "It's not that he is still a son of a big family, he is literate and hyphenated, and he has a good literary talent, but his body is weak ......and sick."

The whole family rolled their eyes.

This was all said by the old lady, and they thought that it should be her old man who had smeared gold on her husband's face. Let's not mention anything else, just because their father was upside down and came to the Qiu family, they knew that he couldn't be everyone's son.

Even if the young man is more prosperous and wants to get rich, he will choose a rich family, it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law, is there no way to get rich? The relatives and elders of the Qiu family, several clan elders who are still alive mention him secretly...... Not a good thing, presumably.

"Let's not talk about this first, what does my mother want to see Miss Hongchen?"

The third child took out his notebook. Wrote a sentence.

He couldn't speak. Among the three brothers, they read the most and read the most, and the two brothers only knew a few words and could calculate the accounts clearly. But he studied seriously.

"Miss Hongchen, I don't know. Just listen to what others say. She was originally from Jiangjiazhuang, but later found out that her biological parents were different, and she was not allowed by her adoptive mother. Only then did she break off the relationship, and now she is studying at Yanshan Academy, and the villagers don't criticize her much, it seems that her adoptive mother has some problems. ”

I only heard that Hongchen was a student of Yanshan Academy, and the brothers of the Qiu family were relieved, since they could be admitted to the academy, they were naturally people with excellent moral character.

But what did my mother do with someone else?

For a while, the three brothers had their brains opened, could it be that their mother knew the news of their father? Miss Hongchen is the child born to their father again? Wrong age, that's a granddaughter?

If Hongchen knew the thoughts of these three brothers, when he came to the door, he might not have a good impression of them because of the politeness of these people.

Mrs. Qiu was in a hurry, Hongchen took the car to Qiu's house that day, in fact, she was a little hesitant, these days to calculate the death date of Master Qiu, the more calculated, the more I felt wrong, the answer to the guess was too unbelievable, but even the power in the Yujue space was curious, and calculated it for her, but the result was really not good.

Her thoughts were a little confused, but she was not really a little girl who had never seen tragic things in the world, and when she faced the three brothers of the Qiu family, she was only slightly silent.

Mrs. Qiu sat in the hall, with a kind face, silver hair, holding the doll ornament in her hand, and waved her hand to let her sons and daughters-in-law stand down.

The boss of the Qiu family looked back a little awkward - how could the guests not serve tea when they came to the door? But the mother said that no one was allowed to enter, and no one dared to enter.

"It turned out to be a little girl."

Old Mrs. Qiu looked at Hongchen, quite surprised, sighed and said, "After many years of heart knots, you can let a little girl see through it, and she is still an outsider." ”

Hongchen lowered her head, she didn't know how she guessed it all at once, as if she was a ghost.

Mrs. Qiu obviously thought the same way: "I heard that the little girl can be psychic, maybe my husband took the initiative to tell you that he wants this secret to be revealed to the world, he is not a negative person, but he has carried the notoriety for so many years, and he must be unwilling." ”

Maybe Hongchen is an outsider, and the old lady speaks without scruples, or maybe she has been silent for too long, and now she wants to talk, Hongchen just bumped into it, and the old man opened the conversation box and smiled: "You are still young, you have never been hungry, and you don't know what it is like to be hungry...... Forty years ago, at the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the four realms were uneasy, and there were wars all around, and we sat on the dragon chair that this Son of Heaven was still the King of You...... This is what my husband told me, I can't say it, I just know that life was very sad at that time, not to mention full food, the villagers are all worried about the next meal after eating, there is a natural and man-made disaster, selling children and girls are common. ”

Hongchen didn't speak.

Not to mention the past, even now, what is new in selling children and girls in those places where there have been disasters and famines.

"I remember that year, thousands of miles of red land, no harvest, I just gave birth to a junior, my husband's health is not very good, there is no food at home for half a month, the bark outside is clean, and there are still fathers and elders in the village, so they discuss how to eat for their sons."

Mrs. Qiu said slowly word by word, the expression on her face was very cold, as if she was not talking about something miserable, but just telling the most ordinary life.

"My husband is not in good health, and I don't know when this natural disaster will pass, and the life at home is really unbearable, so I will discuss with my husband, why don't you take Xiao San'er to exchange for some food, he is a dumb man, how good can he live if he is alive? Besides, adults have no food to eat, I can't even squeeze out milk, and I'm about to give him blood water, how can I feed a small baby. ”

Mingmingqiu was not too excited, but Hongchen couldn't help but get nervous, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

"As I spoke, my husband looked at me. After watching it for a long time, I don't look good, my skin is dark, and I don't know how to wear makeup, but he is different. Mrs. Qiu's expression was very strange, like a big pie falling from the sky, smashed into her arms, she was secretly happy, and wanted to swallow it, but she was afraid that it was poisonous in her mouth. In the end, it turned out to be a good piece of pie. On the contrary, I wondered, why did I give this thing to myself?

"My husband is a wonderful man, I think, in this life. Next. Even if it's ten lifetimes. I couldn't find anyone better than him, and he looked at me and said, God only gave him these five good years. My life is short, I hope to accompany me for a day and take me to play for a day. ”

Mrs. Qiu sighed, "Where do I understand him, I can't understand his poetry, but as long as he is happy, I am happy, that day is so good, my husband is so gentle, he didn't say those things I don't understand, only told me that he likes to eat the food I cook, especially like jerky, I laugh at him, where is the jerky delicious, wasteful, and very hard, but he said, there is only one benefit, put it for a long enough time, see it and know that it is meat, people can hold on, it is enough." ”

"He's so good, I agree with what he says, he said that jerky is good, that thing is just bad, and it can only be good."

"That night, I slept very soundly, but the next day I found that his body was very cold, and he died, I held his hand and sat for a long, long time, maybe not soon, but I felt that it was a long time, and he left a few words on the table, jerky, live. He taught me these words for a long time, and I learned them all, and he taught them over and over again, as if I was afraid that I would forget, and in an instant I knew what he was thinking, and he always knew how to support me, and he knew that I could not disobey him. ”

Hongchen's fingertips were cold.

Old Mrs. Qiu seemed to be caught in her own world.

I did as he wanted, on my own. Originally, I wanted to exchange him for someone else, but I'm a woman, just after giving birth, and my body is weak, where can I go? I don't know where I got the courage at the time, but I did a great job...... He didn't know that from that day on, as soon as I picked up the doll he gave me every day, I could see him, see him with a sad face, I know, he wants me to accompany him, but what about the sons? Three children, disabled, without their father and without me, can they still live? ”

"Actually, no matter how many ...... It's not enough to eat, and there's no guarantee that you won't starve to death, but like he said, meat is a good thing, as long as there is one, the children have courage when they think about it, and we are a family of four, struggling desperately, alive, and finally survived. ”

Old Lady Qiu's eyebrows and eyes were soothing, but she shed a tear, "The children have grown up, and even the three sons have married daughters-in-law, and I can go...... But why can't you see him again? ”

Hongchen bit his lip, his pupils shrank slightly, and suddenly there was an inexplicable sadness.

How ridiculous, she was in the camp in her last life, and she was obviously born in a bitter background, so that she would not eat the hardships of the world, but she never thought about it for a day, her life was really not the hardest.

Brocade clothes and jade food, call slaves and maids, at most a man loves concubines, serving his mother-in-law is too grinding, that is, in the end, Jiang Chan is killed, at least it is a beautiful funeral, just the funeral goods, I am afraid that a family of five can live a rich life for a lifetime......

What is the bitterness in her heart, compared with these people who don't want anything, just want a mouthful of food, and even kill humanity in order to fill their stomachs, she is purely disease-free**.

Hongchen was depressed and uncomfortable for a few days, and suddenly there was a strange feeling, like something that had locked her for a long time shattered in an instant.

Yujue's space suddenly shook, and for only a moment, others didn't care.

Hongchen was stunned, and an avatar appeared in the upper left corner of the space, which was still her own, and a golden pattern also appeared next to it, and there was a line of floating words - congratulations to 'Hongchen' for meeting the conditions, opening a membership, the probationary period is over, and the main recognition procedure is being started......

What a mess, I glanced at it and saw that it didn't change much, so I temporarily threw it away, but after such an interruption, the depression in my heart finally decreased slightly, and my brain returned to clarity.

After thinking about it, she suddenly stood up and whispered to Mrs. Qiu's ear: "Your husband doesn't blame you, he is reluctant, he is worried that you will not take care of himself, so he stayed and watched, until you cheered up, he knew that everything was fine, so he left with confidence." ”

The voice had a little spiritual power, soothing people's hearts.

Mrs. Qiu was stunned and tried her best to endure it, but she couldn't help it, and tears flowed down her eyes: "I believe that he is good to me, the best...... Woo woo, Xianggong! ”

She cried out in pain, and the three sons of the Qiu family rushed into the door. Rushing over to support her mother, glaring at Hongchen angrily, looking like she was about to pounce and kill, Mrs. Qiu sobbed and said: "Don't be rude, it's not about Miss Hongchen, I'm happy, happy!" ”

Boss Qiu was relieved at this time, helped his mother sit down, gave her a smooth breath, and gave Hongchen an apologetic look.

Hongchen shrugged. The three brothers surrounded their mother and comforted them. In addition to the door of the house, he took two steps and suddenly paused.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Mo just wiped the horse of the cart, sweating, afraid of smoking red dust. It's a little farther away. Seeing Hongchen's face, it was not quite right. I couldn't help asking.

"Well, I might have done something wrong."

Hongchen pressed his eyebrows, turned around and called the eldest son of the Qiu family. "Go get a doctor and show the old lady."

Qiu Da thought about it, his mother's face didn't look bad, but after all, she was sick, and she really should find a doctor for a follow-up, so she hurriedly said hello to her daughter-in-law, went to invite her in person, and sent Hongchen out by the way, "I can see that my mother is really happy, thank you, Miss." ”

Although he doesn't know what Hongchen has done, he is a filial person, his mother is happy, and he can do whatever he wants.

This thanks, Hongchen is even more unpleasant, worried, got into the car, Xiao Mo while rushing to the car, turned his head and asked, "Miss and Mrs. Qiu didn't talk well?" ”

"No, it's too good."

At least half of the old lady's knot is untied, but is that really a good thing? She is so relaxed, if she is determined to go with her father-in-law, at such an old age, maybe she will really leave as soon as she is relieved.

Sixty-five years old is also considered a happy mourning...... Happy mourning is not happy to let her mourn!

Hongchen's intuition was indeed very accurate.

However, the news came on the third day, the old lady of the Qiu family was not good, the doctors said that it was a reckless effect, although her old family's family was not the top rich, but the heart was excellent, and they had helped many people over the years, and there were countless living people, even the mad monk of Puji Temple heard about it, and they all went to visit in person, and when Hongchen got the news, he was very timely and hurried over to see.

The three brothers of the Qiu family were all bad, but they were not too sad on their faces, and when they saw Hongchen, they didn't think of blaming her, but were polite.

"Miss Lao is worried, we are planning to prepare a coffin first and flush it for our mother, maybe it will be fine."

As soon as Hongchen heard their voices, he knew that these three were afraid that they would not be able to return to God, and they had no sense of reality, and it seemed that they were indeed real filial sons.

"I'd like to visit the old lady."

"Naturally."

Boss Qiu led Hongchen in, the old lady was lying on the bed, her eyes were cloudy, and the sound of breathing came and went, as if she sensed Hongchen entering the door, and tried to open her eyes to see her, her lips opened slightly: "I...... I ......"

Hongchen pasted it over, and heard her say angrily, "Can I see him?" ”

After a little hesitation and thought, she came closer and said: "As a living person, I don't know if you two can meet, but there is a little, I am afraid that your father-in-law has not had time to repair the tomb and erect the monument, and the children and grandchildren have not worshiped during the New Year's Festival, so I am afraid that they will not be comfortable in Huangquan." ”

As soon as the old lady heard this, she opened her eyes, looked at her son, and stretched out her hand.

Hongchen hurriedly put his hand behind his back and shook it vigorously.

Although the three brothers were anxious, they suddenly understood the meaning of Hongchen, and they kept silent, pretending to be confused.

The more confused they became, the more anxious the old lady became, and she sat up from the bed, Hongchen hurriedly supported her, took out a talisman, put it on her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, old lady, you might as well meet your father-in-law in a dream, ask him what he thinks, and discuss the next things." ”

The old lady's face softened, the flushing also subsided slightly, lying flat on the bed, gradually breathing steadily, the eldest son of the Qiu family didn't have time to leave the house, so he grabbed Hongchen and said urgently: "Miss, can my mother still get better?" ”

Hongchen was also not sure, and he didn't dare to say too much, otherwise...... If these three brothers can't bear it, it's her sin.

"I'll try it, the old lady feels that everything is over now, you can rest assured, relieved, since the doctor said that there is no help, you might as well be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, and find some trouble these days to cause trouble to her old man."

Hongchen sighed, "The so-called one blow and then three declines and exhaustion, the will to die is estimated to be the same, if the old lady's life expectancy is still there, frighten a few more times, maybe you can prolong your life." ”

The two looked at each other, and they didn't know if Hongchen was reliable or not, but now there was really no way.

It's just that the three of them have been well-behaved for decades, and now they want to make trouble for their mothers, and their skills are really unskilled. (To be continued......)

PS: Are there any relatives who can't eat? If you can't eat it, you can't eat it, and you should lose weight.