Under the gray sky, dense mounds of graves are undulating. In the middle of the mound stood a few poplar trees, and all that remained were empty branches. A flock of hungry crows crouched on the tree branches, croaking and croaking.

Meng Xiaowan was wearing Mingyue's robe, standing next to a dark coffin, her eyes were red as she watched Mingyue digging a grave with her bare shoulders.

Under the auspices of Mama Li, she married Mingyue in a hurry.

Mama Li passed away just after the ceremony, she was so grief-stricken that she couldn't wait to go with Mama Li. Just when she was crying so darkly that she was rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for silver to buy a thin-skin coffin for Mama Li. Mingyue, the man who inexplicably became her husband, carried back a cedar coffin out of nowhere. The coffin was thick, and it was muffled when knocked on. The surface is painted with high-quality black lacquer, the color is bright, and the coffin is painted with lotus flowers. I also bought a few large pieces of longevity clothes and birthday gifts, and asked the neighborhood aunts to dress up for Mama Li. Only then did she send Mama Li into the coffin, and surrounded by several suona hands and helpers, the coffin was sent to the cemetery.

In the year of the disaster, everyone had no strength, and the helpers hastily dug a pit to put the coffin down. Mingyue saw that the shallow graves around her had been dug open by wild dogs, and jumped into the grave pit to dig it up. He was very strong and fast, and it didn't take long for him to dig a grave more than one person deep by himself.

Meng Xiaowan watched her strange husband busy in a daze, and her panicked mind was a little settled as if she had a backbone. Still grief-stricken, but the gratitude in my heart is indescribable.

sent Mama Li to the funeral, and burned something on the first seven days, and the funeral was over.

After burning the relics and paper money, Meng Xiaowan kowtowed in front of Mama Li's grave, and then knelt in a daze. She didn't know where she was going, she didn't know what to do, and her head was in chaos. I want to ask Mama Li, Mama Li is buried in the soil again and will not answer her.

"It's time to go." There was a voice behind him, as cold as frost floating on a bluestone slab in the morning.

Turning his head, Mingyue pulled a donkey cart and stood on the avenue not far away.

This is the person who will be with her from now on, her husband? With a slight determination in her heart, Meng Xiaowan slowly stood up and walked towards Mingyue. After taking two steps, one of the thin soles of her shoes stepped on a bamboo stick, and she screamed softly in pain.

"Are you alright?" Mingyue walked over and bent down to pick up her feet.

The whole body was crooked, and she hurriedly held Mingyue's shoulder, and Meng Xiaowan felt uneasy in her heart. Because unlike other women, she didn't bind her feet. The lotus step half-folded small bow is the standard for many families to choose a daughter-in-law, if Mingyue dislikes her, it is Tianzu......

Fortunately, she was too worried, and Mingyue didn't seem to pay attention to whether her feet were big or small. Pulling out the bamboo skewers on the soles of Meng Xiaowan's shoes, he straightened up: "Your shoes are very thin." After speaking, he picked up Meng Xiaowan with one hand and walked towards the donkey cart like a child.

For the first time, I was held tightly in my arms by a man, and I felt the undulating muscle lines on Mingyue's chest. Meng Xiaowan's face was as hot as a ripe shrimp, and her heart was pounding wildly. I felt uncomfortable, and my hands were sweating. But she can't refuse, because the man who holds her is her husband, and she will be ...... in the future.

put Meng Xiaowan on the donkey cart, and pulled the thin blanket and put it on her lap. Mingyue sat beside her, flicked her whip, and the donkey cart clanged and walked forward.

Seeing a few heavy pockets and some guys pulling on the donkey cart, Meng Xiaowan mustered up the courage to ask, "Husband, where are we going?" ”

After a while, Mingyue turned her head to look at her: "Husband, call me?" ”

Meng Xiaowan's heart fell to the bottom in an instant, and she lowered her head: "Well, you and I are already husband and wife, and I should call you husband." ”

Marriage is a major event, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, although she has been engaged to Du Gongzi since she was a child, but the two have not yet been courteous, and they are not considered husband and wife. Now she and Mingyue are in front of Mama Li, worshipping the church in front of heaven and earth, and they are an upright couple. In the future, she will not have anything to do with Du Gongzi, and she will serve her husband wholeheartedly.

But if her husband does not approve of the marriage between the two......

"Then what should I call you?" Mingyue asked seriously.

Meng Xiaowan raised her head and looked at him, a pair of dark eyes flashed with determination: "You have to call me Hun Jia." ”

has made up her mind in her heart, if Mingyue does not admit the fact that they are married, she will die on the side of the road, wash her reputation with blood, and keep the reputation of the composer.

Mingyue muttered: "Hun family ......"

I don't know if it's Meng Xiaowan's illusion, she actually saw the corners of Mingyue's mouth raised slightly.

Turning her head to look ahead, Mingyue waved her whip: "Hun family, let's go escape from the famine." ”

Less than two days after marriage, Meng Xiaowan followed her husband on the road to escape.

Although Meng Xiaowan is pampered, her mother was afraid that she would make jokes, so she told her early on that her duty as a wife is to serve her in-laws, serve her husband, wash and sew, cook and sweep the floor. As a first-time wife, Meng Xiaowan took out twelve distractions to prepare to be a good wife and take good care of her husband on the way to escape the famine.

But Meng Xiaowan soon discovered that her married life was completely different from what she thought. Her husband Mingyue is very diligent, and he does all kinds of housework quickly and well. Every day when she was still asleep, Mingyue washed all the clothes to be washed and hung them next to the wooden pile to dry. I also took the time to use rags to get her a pair of insoles, the stitches were unexpectedly neat and dense, and they were warm and thick in the shoes. Meng Xiaowan was extremely surprised and asked Mingyue how to accept the soles of her shoes. He only said that he had no father or mother since he was a child, and he took care of himself, so he learned all the housework.

Regardless of the pulp, washing, sewing, and repairing, Mingyue also took care of the fire cooking. Since the day she married him, Meng Xiaowan has never been hungry again.

As soon as she opened her eyes every morning, Mingyue had already prepared a basin of warm face wash, a box of cleansing tea powder, and a box of fragrant pearl cream. After she washed her face and combed her hair, Mingyue set up breakfast on the folding table again. Breakfast is rarely repeated, white porridge, bean porridge, millet porridge, pickled cucumbers, sour and hot shredded potatoes......

Mingyue's cooking skills are very high, and she can make very ordinary food extremely delicious. But he eats very little himself, and he hardly eats in front of Meng Xiaowan. Once Meng Xiaowan asked, he said that he was not used to eating with others, and he had already eaten the food when it was cooked.

After Meng Xiaowan finished breakfast, the two of them rushed to the road and stopped after walking for two hours. Meng Xiaowan took a walk around to rest, and Mingyue dug the earth and made lunch on the fire. The rice is boiled in a pot, the soup is strained and thrown into the steamer, and the white air rises to steam it. When the lid is lifted, the raw rice is clearly grained. Then cut a chili ring and fry bacon, and slip a sour and hot shredded potatoes for a simple lunch.

There are so many people fleeing the desert on the road, and the smell of incense often attracts many onlookers, and sometimes robbers vying for food. Some people watched Mingyue when they didn't see it, if someone ran over to grab something to eat, he would be unceremonious. Regardless of whether the other party is a man or a woman, grab the other party's neck and throw it more than ten meters into the distance. Come and throw one and throw one, come and throw two and throw a pair, even five or six big men can be thrown clean by him in the blink of an eye.

Although the donkey cart was loaded with several large bags of rice, as well as a bag of potatoes and a bag of bacon. But Mingyue never gives alms to others, nor does she let Meng Xiaowan give alms, even if the other party is a child.

Once, a mother threw a little girl who was dying of starvation to their donkey cart. Seeing that the little girl was dying, Meng Xiaowan couldn't bear it, and secretly carried the child behind a big rock without telling Mingyue. I fed the little girl a mouthful of rice soup and pinched a rice ball for the little girl. After eating, the little girl immediately came to her senses, took the rice balls and ran away.

Before Meng Xiaowan walked back to the donkey cart, the little girl ran back again, followed by a group of children. Dozens of children rushed over, pulling and pulling around Meng Xiaowan and shouting that they were hungry. Probably hungry too much, these children were like a swarm of terrible little locusts, surrounding Meng Xiaowan in the middle. snatched the bowl from her hand, and grabbed her coat and pulled it down. Some people couldn't resist the fragrance of pearl paste emanating from her body, and couldn't help but open their mouths and bite her arm.

Just when she was frightened, Mingyue, who was brushing the pot on the side of the donkey cart, heard the movement and strode over. stepped into the group of children in a few steps, grabbed Meng Xiaowan's waist and carried her to her shoulders, and then yelled at the children fiercely, revealing two sharp fangs.

Meng Xiaowan's head rested on Mingyue's back, and she didn't see what Mingyue did to the children. I saw the children stunned for a moment, and then ran away crying and screaming. Then Mingyue put her back on the ground, and carried a frightened little boy in her right hand to her: "He bites you, and you bite him to breathe." ”

Meng Xiaowan immediately recovered from her fright and chuckled. Of course, she didn't bite the little boy, took the little boy from Mingyue's hand, took out a dried sweet potato in her pocket and handed it to the child, and then let the child go.

Mingyue looked at her fixedly with dark eyes, and reached out to pull up her scattered bun for her: "Hun family, you can't save them." We don't have much food, and if you don't have it, you'll starve. Don't give it any more, others eat it. ”

The rough fingertips swept across Meng Xiaowan's cheeks, and Meng Xiaowan's cheeks turned crimson with shame, and she hurriedly lowered her head and responded: "Hmm." ”

Although they are already husband and wife, usually the two of them can make Meng Xiaowan ashamed for a long time if they don't pay attention to touching. Not to mention that when she sleeps every night, Mingyue guards the entrance of the shack, only separated from her by a thin curtain. Since she was a child, she has not stepped out of the gate, hindering the defense of men and women, even her father is rare, how can she ever be so close to men? So every night, she has to turn over the baked cakes for a long time to fall asleep in a daze, and once Mingyue leaves for a while, she will wake up uneasily.

I don't know when it started, as long as Mingyue was by her side, she could be very relieved. With the company of Mingyue, food and scenery, the whole process of escaping from the famine seemed to her to be as leisurely as going out of the city.

She thought that she was very satisfied with marrying this husband in this life.

Mingyue didn't seem to know anything about the change in Meng Xiaowan's daughter's mind. He ate less and did more every day, pulling his daughter-in-law in a donkey cart, and steadily walked to a place where there were fewer and fewer victims. (To be continued.) )